Thomas Jefferson
History, U.S. Founding
About Jefferson
b. 1743 CE - d. 1826 CE
The third president and a Founding Father, Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13th in Virginia. Jefferson
began his public service as a justice of the peace and
was chosen as a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1769 and of
every succeeding assembly and convention of the colony until he entered
the Continental Congress in 1775. George Washington, president at the time, ushered a reluctant Jefferson into secretaryship of state in the new federal government.
"The birthday of a new world is at hand. The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual’s private rights… In all tyrannical governments the supreme magistracy, or the right both of making and of enforcing the laws, is vested in one and the same man, or one and the same body of men; wherever these two powers are united together, there can be no public liberty."
- Jefferson
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