THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
THOMAS JEFFERSONS PRESIDENCY LOUISIANA PURCHASE LEWIS CLARK AND MORE
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No, he was very poor and became president because all the people liked him
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Yes, he served as Secretary of State under President George and was Vice President under John Adams, not to mention he wrote the Declaration of Independence
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He was a war hero in the American Revolution
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He became president because his daddy was rich
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Detailed explanation-1: -He served as the second Governor of Virginia from 1779 to 1781, during the Revolutionary War. In 1785, Jefferson was appointed the United States Minister to France, and subsequently, the nation’s first secretary of state under President George Washington from 1790 to 1793.
Detailed explanation-2: -Before becoming the nation’s third President, Jefferson served as delegate to the Virginia House of Delegates, where he drafted legislation that abolished primogeniture, the law that made the eldest son the sole inheritor of his father’s property.
Detailed explanation-3: -Thomas Jefferson was the primary draftsman of the Declaration of Independence of the United States and the nation’s first secretary of state (1789–94), its second vice president (1797–1801), and, as the third president (1801–09), the statesman responsible for the Louisiana Purchase.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1779, at Jefferson’s behest, William and Mary appointed his mentor George Wythe as the first professor of law at an American university. In 1779, at the age of thirty-six, Jefferson was elected Governor of Virginia by the two houses of the legislature, as was the process.
Detailed explanation-5: -Thomas Jefferson served as the third president of the United States from March 4, 1801, to March 4, 1809. Jefferson assumed the office after defeating incumbent John Adams in the 1800 presidential election.