Essay Archive - Biography: Jefferson, Thomas
Biography: Jefferson, Thomas
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 the natural rights of man as he expressed them in the Declaration
of Independence and his faith in the people's ability to govern themselves.
He left an impact on his times equaled by few others in American history.
Introduced to the ideas of the Enlightenment as a s....
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