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Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826), third president of the United States (1801-1809) and author of the Declaration of Independence. He was a philosopher, educator, naturalist, politician, scientist, architect, inventor, pioneer in scientific farming, musician, and writer. Jefferson was the foremost spokesperson of his day for democracy. As preside ...

Part two of term paper
... County, Virginia. In 1760 he entered the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. He later studied law and was reasonably successful as a lawyer, but his main source of income was his land. In 1767 Jefferson began work on his mountaintop estate, Monticello, near what is now Charlottesville, Virginia. He designed the mansion himself. He was serving as a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, the lower chamber of the Virginia legislature, when he married Martha Wayles Skelton in 17 ...