Thomas Jefferson (Early Republic)

President Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809)

Though an exemplar as a public servant, Jefferson loved nothing more than being at home in Monticello, farming, reading, and entertaining guests, some of whom stayed for weeks. His mind ranged over many interests and disciplines—gardening, architecture, exploration, wine, history, and government. He filled his home with innovative artifacts that he found in France, and delighted in his wife and children, though his beloved Martha died at the age of thirty-three and only two of his six children lived to adulthood. Jefferson founded the University of Virginia and designed its first buildings. He amassed the largest private library in the United States and sold more than six thousand volumes to Congress after the British burned the Library of Congress in 1814. He began his book collection all over again saying, “I cannot live without books.”

During the Adams Presidency Jefferson penned the Kentucky Resolves, expressing the doctrine of nullification on Congressional legislation deemed unconstitutional by the states. After the contentious and disputed election of 1800, Thomas Jefferson moved into the White House to serve two full terms. Perhaps his greatest achievement was overseeing the Louisiana Purchase and its subsequent exploration by Lewis and Clark, which doubled the size of the United States. He contended diplomatically with Britain and France, and sent American warships against the Barbary Pirates. Jefferson’s protégés, Virginians and close friends James Madison and James Monroe followed him in the presidency.

In one of the mysteries of providence, Thomas Jefferson died on the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, in 1826. He penned his own epitaph in his will, “Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia, because by these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered.” 

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