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DATES OF BIRTH AND DEATH

Born- April 13th, 1743

Died- July 4th, 1826

WHERE HE WAS BORN AND CHILDHOOD

He was born in Shadwell, VA

His first childhood memory, at age three, was of the fifty-mile horseback ride he took with his father's slave into the Virginia wilderness.

EDUCATION AND PARTY

His education was at the College of William & Mary in Virginia is a public research university located in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States

Also his party was the Democratic-Republican Party

CAREER AND WHAT NUMBER FOR PREDSIDENT

From 1794 to 1797, Thomas Jefferson operated as the informal leader of what would become the nation's first opposition political party, the Democratic-Republicans. Jefferson won only eighteen votes outside of the South, thirteen of which came from Pennsylvania.

Thomas Jefferson was number three president

YEARS IN OFFICE

His years in office were 1801–1809

Thomas Jefferson's presidency initiated the quarter-century rule of the "Virginia Dynasty" (1801-1825), including the presidencies of loyal Jeffersonian's James Madison (1809-1817) and James Monroe (1817-1825). Thomas Jefferson was in the rule of Virginia Dynasty.

FUN FACTS

At key points in his life Jefferson had drawn up lists of his achievements, and on the verge of death he designed his own gravestone. He had achievements that he did and passed them to help us and what we have now.

Thomas Jefferson is celebrating the big 2-7-3 today, and we have 10 interesting facts about the versatile Founding Father. He was born on April 13, 1743, in Virginia and died on July 4, 1826 on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson had a longstanding relationship with a slave named Sally Hemings, and that the two had at least one and perhaps as many as six children together.

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Created with images by cliff1066™ - "Jefferson Memorial" • cliff1066™ - "Jefferson Memorial" • David McSpadden - "Thomas Jefferson Family Cemetery, Monticello" • cliff1066™ - "Jefferson Memorial" • m01229 - "Thomas Jefferson's Gravesite" • Provenance Online Project - "Inscription: Dauxion Lavaysse, J.J., 1770-1826; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826" • NatalieMaynor - "Poplar Forest"

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