Thomas Jefferson
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The third president of the United States, a diplomat, statesman, architect,
scientist, and philosopher, is one of the most eminent
figures in American history. No leader in the period of the American
Enlightenment was as articulate, wise, or conscious of the implications and
consequences of a free ....
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.... years under George Wythe. In January of 1772, he married Martha Wayles
Skelton and established a residence at Monticello. When they moved to
Monticello, only a small one room building was completed. Jefferson was
thirty when he began his political career. He was elected to the Virginia
House of Burgess in 1769, where his first action was an unsuccessful bill
allowing owners to free their slaves.
The impending crisis in British-Colonial relations overshadowed routine
affairs of legislatur ....
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