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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Virginia / USThomas JEFFERSON
(1743-1826)
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.
Bibliography
American 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.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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