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THOMAS JEFFERSON

  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 student at the College of William and Mary,
  Jefferson displayed throughout his life an optimistic faith in the power
  of reason to regulate human affairs.

  As a young member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, Jefferson
  questioned British colonial policies and was an early advocate of
  American rights. His forceful pamphlet A Summary View of the
  Rights of British America (1774) gained him the reputation that
  placed him 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 was put forward by his
  supporters to run against Adams in the election of 1796 to succeed
  George Washington as president. He lost that contest but four years
  later defeated Adams to preside over the first transfer of political
  power from one party to another in the history of the young Republic.
  In his inaugural address in 1801, he set the ship of state on a
  republican course based on faith in majority rule, simplicity and
  frugality in government, limited central authority, and protection of civil
  liberties and minority rights. Alexis de Tocqueville, visiting America five
  years after Jefferson's death, declared Jefferson to be "the greatest
  democrat whom the democracy of America has as yet produced."

  On the eve of his inauguration as vice president in 1797, Jefferson had
  been elected president of the American Philosophical Society, a post
  he retained until 1815. In many ways he found more pleasure in
  holding that office than in being president of the United States. A
  boundless intellectual curiosity fueled his interests in science and natural
  history, the classics, music, and the arts. He once reflected: "Nature
  intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my
  supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived
  have forced me to take a part in resisting them, and to commit myself
  on the boisterous ocean of political passions."

  Jefferson translated his intellectual pursuits into action. His study of
  natural law and political thought informed his commitment to republican
  government. His devotion to science inspired numerous agricultural
  pursuits. His interest in architecture and the arts was manifest in the
  design of his home at Monticello. His concern about education led to
  proposals for public education in his state and to the founding of the
  University of Virginia, for which he was champion, architect, and
  academic planner.

  The most versatile intellectual to occupy the presidential office,
  Jefferson was a complex man. He opposed an aristocracy and slavery,
  yet he enjoyed a life of privilege and owned slaves, optimistically
  hoping that the next generation would end that violation of natural law.

  Jefferson's sense of priorities was strikingly revealed when he
  instructed that his tombstone be inscribed only with the words that he
  was the author of the Declaration of Independence and the Statute of
  Virginia for Religious...

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