Biography: Jefferson, Thomas
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1743-1826, intellectual, statesman, and third president of the United
States. Although Jefferson served as governor of Virginia, minister to
France, secretary of state, vice president, and president, he is remembered
in history less for the offices he held than for what he stood for: his
belief in ....
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.... on the committee of the
Continental Congress charged with drafting the Declaration of Independence.
As its principal author, Jefferson gave eloquent expression to the
principles of the natural rights of man, among which, he affirmed, was
self-government.
Jefferson's intellectual prowess led some political opponents to dismiss
him as a visionary, but he was remarkably successful in politics. As leader
of the opposition to the Federalist policies of Alexander Hamilton and John
Adams, Jefferson ....
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