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Thomas Jefferson was born in Shadwell, Virginia to Peter Jefferson and Jane Randolph Jefferson.
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Thomas Jefferson's father died and left him the Shadwell Property and slaves.
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Jefferson graduated from the College of William and Mary.
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Jefferson started working as a lawyer in Virginia.
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Thomas married Martha Wayles Skelton whom he had six children with.
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Jefferson becomes a delegate to the Second Continental Congress.
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Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence and it was approved by Congress on this date.
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Thomas Jefferson serves as the Governor of Virginia from 1779-81.
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Thomas Jefferson's wife, Martha, dies weeks after giving birth to her sixth and last child.
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Thomas Jefferson becomes a U.S. minister to France.
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Jefferson accepts an appointment from George Washington to become the nation's first Secretary of State.
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Thomas Jefferson becomes America's third president after beating John Adams and Aaron Burr in the election.
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Jefferson purchases the 800,000 square miles Louisiana Territory from a French Emperor.
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Jefferson is inugurated into his second term in office.
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After Jefferson's second term of presidency, he heads back to Monticello to live out the rest of his life.
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Struggling under his debts, Jefferson sells his collection of over 6,700 books to Congress after the White House is burnt down by the British in the war.
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Jefferson dies at the age of 83 on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, John Adams, his rival, also died on the same day.
