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Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826
Burgess, 1769=1775
Member of Committee of Correspondence 1773
Member of Virginia Convention 1775
Member of Continental Congress 1775-1776, 1783-1785
Author and Signer of the Declaration of American Independence 1776
Member of House of Delegates 1776-1779, 1782
Governor of Virginia 1779-1781
Author of the Statue of Virginia for Religious Freedom 1785
Minister to France 1785-1789
Secretary of State 1790-1793
Vice President of the United States 1797-1801
President of the United States 1801-1809
Father of the University of Virginia 1819
By George Catlin 1796-1872, from a portrait by Thomas Sully
now in United States Military Academy at West Point |