Thomas Jefferson was born in 1743 in Virginia and died on July 4, 1826. He drafted the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States. As President, he was responsible for the Louisiana Purchase. Jefferson came from a wealthy plantation family and inherited many slaves. He lived most of his life at Monticello, his estate near Charlottesville, Virginia.

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THOMAS JEFFERSON

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Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743, in Shadwell,
Virginia. He was a draftsman of the U.S. Declaration of
Independence; the nation's first secretary of state (1789-
94); second vice president (1797-1801); and, as the third
president (1801-09), the statesman responsible for the
Louisiana Purchase. Jefferson died in bed at Monticello
(located near Charlottesville, Virginia) on July 4, 1826.

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The third of ten children, Thomas Jefferson was
born at the family home in a one and a half story
farmhouse not far from the Virginia wilderness.
According to his autobiography, Jefferson's
earliest memory was being handed to a slave on
horseback and carried 50 miles away to their
new home which overlooked the Rivanna River
near Richmond, in Shadwell, Goochland Country
Virginia, now part of Albemarle County. Much of
his correspondence to relatives makes mention
of this memory. His father was Peter Jefferson, a
planter and surveyor who died when Jefferson
was fourteen, never getting the chance to
measure up to him as an adult. Jefferson's facial
appearance resembled that of his father, but his
slim physical form resembled that of his mother's
family.

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He was of English and possible Welsh
descent, although this remains
unclear.His mother was Jane Randolph,
daughter of Isham Randolph, a ship's
captain and sometime planter. Peter and
Jane married in 1739.Thomas Jefferson
showed little interest in learning about
his ancestry; he only knew of the
existence of his paternal
grandfather.However, Jefferson wrote in
his autobiography that his father came
from the foothills of Snowdon.

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Before the widower William Randolph, an old friend
of Peter Jefferson, died in 1745, he appointed
Peter as guardian to manage his Tuckahoe
Plantation and care for his four children. That
year the Jeffersons relocated to Tuckahoe,
where they lived for the next seven years before
returning to Shadwell in 1752. Peter Jefferson
died in 1757 and the Jefferson estate was
divided between Peter's two sons, Thomas and
Randolph. Thomas inherited approximately 5,000
acres (2,000 ha; 7.8 sq mi) of land, including
Monticello, and between 20 and 40 slaves. He
took control of the property after he came of age
at 21. The precise amount of land and number of
slaves that Jefferson inherited is estimated.

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Jefferson died on July 4, 1826 -- the 50th
anniversary of the Declaration of Independence
-- only a few hours before John Adams also
passed away in Massachusetts. In the moments
before he passed, John Adams spoke his last
words, eternally true if not in the literal sense in
which he meant them, "Thomas Jefferson
survives."
As the author the Declaration of Independence,
the foundational text of American democracy and
one of the most important documents in world
history, Thomas Jefferson will be forever revered
as one of the great American Founding Fathers.
However, Jefferson was also a man of many
contradictions

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Jefferson was the spokesman of liberty and a
racist slave owner, the champion of the common
people and a man with luxurious and aristocratic
tastes, a believer in limited government and a
president who expanded governmental authority
beyond the wildest visions of his predecessors, a
quiet man who abhorred politics and the most
dominant political figure of his generation. The
tensions between Jefferson's principles and
practices make him all the more apt a symbol for
the nation he helped create, a nation whose
shining ideals have always been complicated by
a complex history.

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Jefferson is buried in the family cemetery at
Monticello, in a grave marked by a plain gray
tombstone. The brief inscription it bears, written
by Jefferson himself, is as noteworthy for what it
excludes as what it includes. The inscription
suggests Jefferson's humility as well as his belief
that his greatest gifts to posterity came in the
realm of ideas rather than the realm of politics:
"Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of
the Declaration of American Independence of the
Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, and
father of the University Of Virginia."

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 Ντελόπουλος Βασίλης
 Μπομπότης Βαγγέλης
 Καλιάμπος Μιχάλης

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Ομάδα Εργασίας
 Ντελόπουλος Βασίλης
 Μπομπότης Βαγγέλης
 Καλιάμπος Μιχάλης