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Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 2 April 1743
- Died
- 4 July 1826
- Place of birth
- Shadwell
- Place of death
- Monticello
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Thomas
- Family name
- Jefferson
- Father
- Peter Jefferson
- Mother
- Jane Randolph Jefferson
- Spouse
- Martha Jefferson
- Child
- Martha Jefferson Randolph, Mary Jefferson Eppes, Madison Hemings, Harriet Hemings, Eston Hemings, Jane Randolph Jefferson, unnamed son Jefferson, Lucy Elizabeth Jefferson I, Lucy Elizabeth Jefferson II
- Field of work
- plantation, law, philosophy, diplomacy, architecture
- Occupation
- teacher, cryptographer, architect, lawyer, writer, diplomat, politician, philosopher, inventor, planter class, statesperson, archaeologist
- Position held
- Vice President of the United States, United States Secretary of State, United States Ambassador to France, Governor of Virginia, President of the United States, President-elect of the United States, member of the Virginia House of Delegates
- Citizenship
- United States
- Native language
- English
- Religion
- deism, Anglicanism
- candidacy in election
- 1800 United States presidential election, 1804 United States presidential election
- cause of death
- uremia
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Dictionary of American Library Biography, Encyclopædia Britannica Ninth Edition, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary, Library of the World's Best Literature, The American Portrait Gallery, A Dictionary of Eminent Librarians, The Encyclopedia Americana
- educated at
- College of William & Mary
- end of work period
- 1826
- height
- 1.89 m, 189 cm
- influenced by
- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
- instrument
- violin
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- American Philosophical Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Warsaw Society of Friends of Learning, American Antiquarian Society
- member of political party
- Democratic-Republican Party
- name in native language
- Thomas Jefferson
- number of children
- 6
- place of burial
- grave of Thomas Jefferson, Monticello
- relative
- Dabney Carr, Thomas Garland Jefferson
- residence
- Monticello, Hôtel de Langeac
- significant event
- first inauguration of Thomas Jefferson
- social classification
- slave owner
- student of
- William Small
- topic's main category
- Category:Thomas Jefferson
- unmarried partner
- Sally Hemings
Connected on Wikidata
Author of
- United States Declaration of Independence
- Jefferson Bible
- Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
- Notes on the State of Virginia
- American's Creed
- Jefferson's Manual
- Memorandums taken on a journey from Paris into the southern parts of France and Northern Italy, in the year 1787
- A Summary View of the Rights of British America
- Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
- The Declaration of Independence
- Letter to Abigail Adams - February 22
- Letter to Archibald Stuart - January 25
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