Thomas+Jefferson

=THOMAS JEFFERSON=

Thomas Jefferson wanted the 13 colonies to become a nation. Thomas Jefferson was a good writer and wrote letters asking the people to help the nation to become free. Thomas Jefferson wrote 50,000 letters in his lifetime. Thomas Jefferson was a good writer that he and other men were chosen to write the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson had many interest he liked hunting, fishing, riding horses and canoeing. He also enjoyed listening to music and playing the violin. When Thomas Jefferson was 17 he went to college and studied law for 15 hours or more a day. Thomas Jefferson didn't go to school like normal kids his dad was his teacher and his parents told him how to serve people.

Thomas Jefferson knew that education was important so he planned the University of Virigina. Thomas Jefferson designed the buildings and marked where they should be built. He also chose the library books, and even hired the teachers. The school opened in 1825 with 40 students.

After Thomas Jefferon served two terms he returned to Monticello and farming. He grew hundredes of different kinds of vegetables and fruit trees. When George Washington was preisdent, Thomas Jefferson was his secretary of state. Then he served as vice president under John Adams. Jefferson was elected the third president of the United States in 1801. Thomas Jefferson had a good life he was chosen to write a draft of the Declaration of Independence, he also was elected the third preisdent of the United States. Besides serving two terms as president, Jefferson served as vice-president, secretary of state, minister to France, congressman, governor of Virginia; he also founded the University of Virginia and served as president of the American Philosophical Society.

Thomas Jefferson author of the Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, third president of the United States, and founder of the University of Virginia voiced. Thomas Jefferson was a leader to a lot of people. When Thoams Jefferson died everybody felt so sorry for his family and himself.

After Thomas Jefferson left Congress in 1776, he returned to Virginia and served in the legislature. Elected governor from 1779 to 1781. Thomas Jefferson had a good life and that's why peopel appreciates him and still does.