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• Delegate to the Continental Congress (1775-1776 and 1783-1784)
• Minister to negotiate treaties with Barbary states and European nations (1784) • Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1776-1779)
• Governor of Virginia (1779-1781)
• Minister Plenipotentiary to France (1785-1789)
• Secretary of State of the United States (1789-1793)
• Vice President of the United States (1797-1801)
• President of the United States (1801-1809)
Significant Accomplishments
• Wrote and signed the Declaration of Independence (1776)
• Purchased Louisiana territory from France for $15 million (1803)
• Sent Meriwether Lewis and Thomas Clark on an expedition to explore new
territory in the western part of the United States (1804-1806)
• Founder and architect of the University of Virginia (1819); Jefferson designed its
buildings, planned its curriculum, and oversaw its construction.
• Sold his personal library of 6,487 books to the federal government in 1815 to restart the Library of Congress, which had been burned during the British invasion
of Washington during the War of 1812
Writings
• “A Summary View of the Rights of British America” (1774)
• “A Declaration of the Causes & Necessity for Taking Up Arms” (1775)
• Draft for a constitution for the new State of Virginia (1776)
• “The Declaration of Independence” (1776)
• “Notes on the State of Virginia” (1781-1782)
• “Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom” (1779) enacted by Virginia House of
Burgesses in 1786.
• “Manual of Parliamentary Practice” (1801)
• “Jefferson Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth” (1819) • “Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson” (1821)
Death
• July 4, 1826 – Jefferson died at Monticello on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. He was 83 years old.
• John Adams died on the same day, just a few hours after Jefferson. Adam’s last whispered words were, “Thomas Jefferson survives.”
SOURCES:
1. Revolutionary War and Beyond,
revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com 2. Monticello, monticello.org 3. Library of Congress, loc.gov
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