MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THOMAS JEFFERSON
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Born April 13, 1753. Died July 9, 1928
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Born February 1, 1438. Died August 10, 1541
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Born October 30, 1763. Died January 27, 1890
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Born April 13, 1743. Died July 4, 1826
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Detailed explanation-1: -Jefferson’s Birthday officially honors the birth of the third U.S. president, Thomas Jefferson on April 13, 1743. This day was recognized by Franklin D. Roosevelt as part of Presidential Proclamation 2276, issued on March 21, 1938. President George W.
Detailed explanation-2: -In his retirement he founded the University of Virginia, which was chartered in 1819 and opened for classes in the spring of 1825.
Detailed explanation-3: -The deaths of former U.S. Presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams on July 4, 1826–the day of the Jubilee–the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, was an extraordinary and eerie coincidence. Jefferson died shortly after noon at the age of 83 in Monticello, Virginia.
Detailed explanation-4: -Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743, at Shadwell plantation in western Virginia. His first childhood memory, at age three, was of the fifty-mile horseback ride he took with his father’s slave into the Virginia wilderness.