Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), the third President of the United States, is one of the most important founding father of the American History. He is very well known for writing the Declaration of Independence, a document that had said that America had broke away from Britain and had made its own country. He was very clever, and had many occupations such as philosopher, educator, politician, scientist, architect, inventor, and musician. In his time he was also the leading lecturer for democracy, which had lead him to success.
Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743 in a very small four room wooden house of Shadwell in Albemarle County, Virginia. His father, Peter Jefferson and his mother, Jane Randolph, were members of two well-known Virginia families. Jefferson was the third of ten children and had moved at the age of two when William Randolph, Mrs. Jefferson's cousin had died. In Randolph's will, it had asked for Jefferson's father to move to Randolph's own house and supervise the education of Randolph's four children.
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This photograph is of the grave site of Thomas Jef...At the Randolph's estate, known as Tuckahoe, the Jeffersons stayed for seven years while Jefferson acquired much of his knowledge. When Jefferson was five, he had started education from a family tutor of Tuckahoe. Four years later, the family returned to Shadwell and started work again on their little farm. Jefferson did not spend as much time in Shadwell because he was informed that he could study Latin with Reverend William Douglas in Dover, Virginia. There he had studied until he was fourteen when his father died. Afterwards he studied Greek and Latin classics, history, literature, geography, and natural science when he was sent for two years to Reverend James Maury School in Hanover, Virginia. In 1767, Jefferson designed Monticello on a small mountain of Virginia, very...