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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), author of the Declaration of Independence and the third U.S. president, was a leading figurs in America's early development. He later seved as U.S. minister to France and U.S. secretary of the state, and was vice president under John Adams -
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Thomas Jefferson Declartion and stuff
Thomas Jefferson, was the author of the Declaration of Independence. He was also a leading figure in the America's early war. During the American Recolutionary was, he also served in the Virginia legislature and the Continenal congress and was governot of Virginia. -
Thomas Jefferson's Childhood
Tomas Hefferson, born on April 13, 1743, at Shadwell plantation in Western Virginia. His first childhood memory, was when he was three years old, he was on a fiffty-mile horseback ride he took with his father's slave into the Virdinia wilderness. -
Thomas Jefferson's Family
Tomas Jefferson was the third of ten children in the family. His father was Peter Jefferson (1708-1757), a planter and surveyor, Peter died at the age 49. Thomas Jefferson and his brother Randolph inherited some of the father's estates, including 5,ooo acres of land, Monticello, and some slaves when he was only 21.His mother was Hane Randolph (1721-1776) -
Thomas Jefferson marriage
On New Year's Day 1772 Jedderson married twenty-four year old Martha Wayles Skelton, the Daughter of John Wayles and Martha Wppes Wayles and the widow of Bathurst Skelton. They met two years earlier and shated an affinity for music and literature and a family heritage that linked them both to the prestife and wealth of Virginia planter society. By all accountes they were well matvhed and deeply in love. Years -
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Thomad Jeffersons kids
Martha and Thomas had six childten, only two martha and Mary survived to adulthood. The elder Martha Jefferson died a few months after fiving birth in 1782, Jefferson's daughter, and later his grandchildren, became focus of his domestic life. -
Hate on Thomas
While president in 1802, his family life attracted public attention when the Richmond journalist Hames Thomson Callender accused him of fathering children with his slave, and his wife's likely haf-sister-Sally Hemings. His later years were maked by family strife, including a feud between his two sons in law and alcohol fueled ciolence perrtrated by the husband of one of his granddaughter. -
Thomas Jefferson
1809-1801 was his term as president. -
Some quotes from Thomas Jefferson
"Ipredict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the goverment from wasting the labors on the people under the pretense of taking care of them." "Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdon." "The most caluable of all talents is that the never using two words when one will do." "Nothing gives one person so mych advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstanves." -
Jefferson's Cause of Death
Thomas jefferson's exact cause of death has never been conclusively determined. He lived to the ripe old age of 83, his health has been declining since 1818, when he visited Warms Spring, Virginia, to find relief for his rheumatism in the mineral baths.
