Thomas Jefferson

By Mackenzie Nagel

  • Born

    Born
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    he is the third of ten children, Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743 at the family home in Shadwell, Goochland County, Virginia.

  • Governor

    Governor
    Govornor of ViginiaAs governor of Virginia (1780-1781) during the Revolutionary War, Jefferson recommended forcibly moving Cherokee and Shawnee tribes that fought on the British side to lands west of the Mississippi River.

  • Virginia Assembly

    Virginia Assembly
    SlaveryJefferson gained passage of a bill to prohibit the state from importing slaves. The scholar Paul Finkleman suggests that Virginia planters passed the bill to raise the economic value of domestic slaves, rather than from an interest in abolishing slavery.

  • Elected as President

    Elected as President
    President Elected president in what Jefferson called the Revolution of 1800, he oversaw a peaceful transition in power, purchased the vast Louisiana Territory from France (1803), and sent the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806) to explore the new west.

  • West Point

    West Point
    west pointIdeas for a national institution for military education were circulated during the American Revolution. In May 1801 the Secretary of War Henry Dearborn announced that the president had appointed Major Jonathan Williams, grandnephew of Benjamin Franklin, to direct organizing to establish such a school.[110] Following the advice of George Washington, John Adams and others,[111] in 1802 Jefferson convinced Congress to authorize the funding and construction of the United States Military Academy at W