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JEFFERSON, Thomas, (father-in-law of Thomas Mann Randolph and John Wayles Eppes),
a Delegate from Virginia, a Vice President and 3d President of the
United States; born at Shadwell, Va., in present-day Albemarle County, Va.,
on April 13, 1743; attended a preparatory school; graduated from William and
Mary College, Williamsburg, Va., in 1762; studied law; admitted to the bar and
commenced practice in 1767; member, colonial House of Burgesses, 1769-1775;
Member of the Continental Congress, 1775 and 1776; chairman of the committee
that drew up, primary author of, and signer of the Declaration of Independence
1776; Governor of Virginia, 1779-1781; member, State house of delegates 1782;
again a Member of the Continental Congress, 1783-1784; appointed a Minister
Plenipotentiary to France in 1784, and then sole Minister to the King of France
in 1785, for three years; Secretary of State of the United States in the
Cabinet of President George Washington, 1789-1793; elected Vice President of
the United States and served under President John Adams, 1797-1801; elected
President of the United States in 1801 by the House of Representatives on the
thirty-sixth ballot; reelected in 1804 and served from March 4, 1801, to March
3, 1809; retired to his estate, Monticello, in Virginia; active in founding
the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.; died at Monticello, Albemarle
County, Va., July 4, 1826; interment in family cemetery at
Monticello.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography;
Dictionary of American Biography; Jefferson, Thomas.
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Edited by Julian P. Boyd, et
al. 27 vols. to date. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950-. Malone,
Dumas.
Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty. Boston: Little, Brown,
Co., 1962.
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