Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jefferson

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I. Early Life and Childhood 1

II Through Collage and Into the world 2

III Revolutionary Politics 3

IV Pre-Presidential Posts and Accomplishments 4

V Presidency and post presidency 5

VI Picture 6

VII Works Cited 7

Thomas Jefferson

I. Early life and childhood

A simple log cabin located in now what is commonly known as Albemarle County, Virginia, was the birthplace of Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States of America. He was born on April 13, 1743 to Peter and Jane Randolph Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson was borne into what we might define today as an upper middle class. His mother, Jane Randolph, came from one of the leading families of Virginia and his father Peter Jefferson, although not considered poor, was considerably less well off than his wife. (Malone 1)

When Thomas was only two years old he and his family, which now consisted of three

Sisters, himself and his mother moved to a new house called Tuckahoe. His father provided for

his family by working as a planter owning more than 200 slaves but as his children grew he

expanded and moved further from raising tobacco and made a name for himself by eventually

becoming a well known surveyor and getting the popular reputation as a conqueror of the

Virginian wilderness. (Malone 22)

When Tom was nine he and his family moved back to the home of his birth where his

father died five years later. Tom spent the rest of his childhood as a typical Virginian boy would.

He developed a not overwhelming yet real affection for the out doors as any boy would. He

attended the Latin School of the Reverend William Douglas who was the min...

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...term he won the election by a complete landslide winning every state with the exception of Connecticut and Delaware. He commissioned the Lewis and Clark Expedition, arrested Aaron Burr for engaging in a conspiracy to try and establish Louisiana as an independent Republic, and ended the Tripolitan war, which was the first fighting ever done by the American Navy. As he continued to lead the country in these new times of suffering and change he continued to fight to reform many of the country’s faults e.g. tax supported elementary system.

Jefferson lived 17 years after his second term. In which time he founded the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He died on the 50th anniversary of the signing of his very own Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1826 at his home in Monticello. http://www.monticello.org/jefferson/biography.html

VI. Picture

VII. Works cited

Malone, Dumas. Jefferson the Virginian. New York: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1948

Thomas Jefferson. [online] Nov 28, 2004

A brief Biography of Thomas Jefferson. [online] Nov 30, 2004

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