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1 giorno fa · Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 [b] – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. [6] He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence. Following the American Revolutionary War and ...
5 giorni fa · Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ... Thomas Jefferson Randolph. Publication date 1829 Publisher F. Carr, and Co.
3 giorni fa · Discover the best documentaries about Thomas Jefferson, delving into his role as the Declaration of Independence author and third U.S. President, and uncovering the complexities of his life and legacy.
1 giorno fa · It’s the endpoint to a project begun years earlier by men such as the Declaration’s author, Thomas Jefferson, to make a people out of the numerous, disparate peoples of the thirteen American colonies. However much a government’s legitimacy does not depend on a common blood or soil, as the Declaration affirms, the Founders knew full well ...
3 giorni fa · As president, Jefferson presided over a reduction in the national debt and government spending, and completed the Louisiana Purchase with France. Madison succeeded Jefferson as president in 1809 and led the country during the largely inconclusive War of 1812 with Britain.
10 ore fa · Many of Virginia’s leading revolutionaries, including Peyton Randolph, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Patrick Henry, served as Burgesses. In response to revolutionary agitation, Governor Dunmore dissolved the House of Burgesses in 1774, though he briefly called them together again the next year.
10 ore fa · THIS CARTOUCHE sits in the corner of Henry Schenck Tanner’s large 1822 “Map of North America,” published just four years before Jefferson’s death, and two decades after he’d commissioned Lewis & Clark’s expedition to the Pacific. The inset image features the era’s common coupling of the Natural Bridge and Niagara Falls.
