13 April 1743: Happy Birthday, Thomas Jefferson
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Portrait of Thomas Jefferson by Rembrandt Peale, 1800.
Image source: Wikipedia
Image source: Wikipedia
Via The History Channel Online.
Future President Thomas Jefferson, drafter of the Declaration of Independence, the nation’s preeminent political theorist and a plantation owner who sired children with one of his slaves, is born on this day in 1743.More here.
Historian and biographer Joseph Ellis has called Jefferson, who had a monumental role in shaping American politics, the “American sphinx” for his enigmatic character. Since his terms in office, presidents and politicians from both ends of the political spectrum have borrowed from Jefferson’s political philosophy in an attempt to link their own leadership with this most influential and admired founding father.
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