Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, planter, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence. Following the American Revolutionary War and before becoming president in 1801, Jefferson was the nation's first U.S. secretary of state under George Washington and then the nation's second vice president under John Adams. Jefferson was a leading proponent of democracy, republicanism, and individual rights, and produced formative documents and decisions at the state, national, and international levels.Jefferson was born into the Colony of Virginia's planter class, dependent on slave labor. During the American Revolution, Jefferson represented Virginia at the Second Continental Congress and served as the second governor of revolutionary Virginia from 1779 to 1781. In 1785, Congress appointed Jefferson U.S. minister to France, where he served from 1785 to 1789. President Washington then appointed Jefferson the nation's first secretary of state, where he served from 1790 to 1793. During this time, in the early 1790s, Jefferson and political ally James Madison organized the Democratic-Republican Party to oppose the Federalist Party during the formation of the nation's First Party System. Jefferson and Federalist John Adams became both personal friends and political rivals. In the 1796 U.S. presidential election between the two, Jefferson came in second, which made him Adams' vice president under the electoral laws of the time. Four years later, in the 1800 presidential election, Jefferson again challenged Adams, and won the presidency. In 1804, Jefferson was reelected overwhelmingly to a second term.
As president, Jefferson assertively defended the nation's shipping and trade interests against Barbary pirates and aggressive British trade policies, promoted a western expansionist policy with the Louisiana Purchase, which doubled the nation's geographic size, and was able to reduce military forces and expenditures following successful negotiations with France. In his second presidential term, Jefferson was beset by difficulties at home, including the trial of his former vice president Aaron Burr. In 1807, Jefferson implemented the Embargo Act to defend the nation's industries from British threats to U.S. shipping, limiting foreign trade and stimulating the birth of the American manufacturing industry.
Jefferson is ranked by both scholars and in public opinion among the upper tier of American presidents. Presidential scholars and historians praise Jefferson's public achievements, including his advocacy of religious freedom and tolerance, his peaceful acquisition of the Louisiana Territory from France, and his leadership in supporting the Lewis and Clark Expedition; acknowledging the fact of his lifelong ownership of large numbers of slaves, they give differing interpretations of his views on and relationship with slavery. Provided by Wikipedia
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In Council, March 26, 1781. : Sir, I inclose you by express, three acts of the last session of Assembly for ascertaining the number of militia in the state ...
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In Council, March 30, 1781. : Sir, The act of October 1780, for recruiting this state's quota of troops to serve in the Continental Army, allowed persons to exempt themselves from...
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A bill for establishing religious freedom, printed for the consideration of the people.
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By His Excellency Thomas Jefferson, Esq ; governour of the Commonwealth of Virginia: A proclamation. : Whereas during the incursions which have been made into this and others of th...
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At a meeting of the committee appointed by the American Philosophical Society : for the purpose of collecting and communicating to the society materials for forming the natural his...
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(Note. The passages of the convention of 1784, which are not in that of 1788, are printed in italics: those of 1788 which were not in that in 1784, are in a small character.
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United States, 15th January, 1794. : Gentlemen of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives. I lay before you, as being connected with the correspondence, already in your pos... by Genet, Edmond Charles, 1763-1834
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A message of the president of the United States : transmitting a report of the secretary of state of such laws, decrees and ordinances respecting commerce in the countries with whi...
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Report of the secretary of state, on the subject of establishing a uniformity in the weights, measures and coins of the United States. /
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Report of the secretary of state, on the subject of establishing a uniformity in the weights, measures and coins of the United States. /
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Report of the secretary of state, on the subject of establishing a uniformity in the weights, measures and coins of the United States. /
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Report of the secretary of state, on the subject of establishing a uniformity in the weights, measures and coins of the United States. /
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Report of the secretary of state, on the subject of the cod and whale fisheries : made conformably to an order of the House of Representatives of the United States, referring to hi...
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Report of the secretary of state, on the subject of the cod and whale fisheries : made conformably to an order of the House of Representatives of the United States, referring to hi...
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Report of the secretary of state, on the subject of the cod and whale fisheries : made conformably to an order of the House of Representatives of the United States, referring to hi...
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Report of the secretary of state, to the president of the United States, of the quantity and situation of the lands not claimed by the Indians, nor granted to, nor claimed by any c...
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The Secretary of State, to whom was referred, by the House of Representatives of the United States : the petition of Jacob Isaacks, of Newport, in Rhode-Island, has examined into t...
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The secretary of state, to whom was referred by the House of Representatives the letter of John H. Mitchell : reciting certain proposals, for supplying the United States with coppe...
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A dialogue, between a southern delegate and his spouse, on his return from the grand Continental Congtress : A fragment, inscribed to the married ladies of America, / by V., Mary V.
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Report of the secretary of state, on the privileges and restrictions on the commerce of the United States in foreign countries. : Published by order of the House of Representatives...
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