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Thomas Jefferson: Virginia House
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Revered as the author of the Declaration of Independence yet condemned as a slave owner, Thomas Jefferson has entered a new era of controversy. Jefferson was a young man from the Virginia wilderness, transformed by the philosophical fire of the American Revolution. Torn between his career and family life at Monticello, he suffered heartrending personal loss even as he was formulating brilliant ideas about democratic government.
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Celebrating UND’s 125th Anniversery, Thomas Jefferson will speak about the founding of his own University of Virginia. Event is sponsored by UND college of Education and Human Development and is free and open to the public .
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Besides being well born, Thomas Jefferson was well educated. In small private schools, notably that of James Maury, he was thoroughly grounded in the classics. He attended the College of William and Mary--completing the course in 1762--where Dr. William Small taught him mathematics and introduced him to science. He associated intimately with the liberal-minded Lt. Gov. Francis Fauquier, and read law (1762-1767) with George Wythe, the greatest law teacher of his generation in Virginia.
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Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743[1] into a family closely related to some of the most prominent individuals in Virginia, the third of eight children. His mother was Jane Randolph, daughter of Isham Randolph, a ship's captain and sometime planter, and first cousin to Peyton Randolph. Jefferson's father was Peter Jefferson, a planter and surveyor who owned plantations in Albemarle County (Shadwell, then Edge Hill, Virginia.) He was of English descent and belonged to the Haplogroup K2.
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Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743 at Shadwell in Albemarle county, Virginia. He had inherited a considerable landed estate from his father, and doubled it by a happy marriage on Jan. 1, 1772, to Martha Wayles Skelton. He was elected to the House of Burgesses when he was 25.
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Thomas Jefferson was born April 13, 1743, in Shadewell, Virginia. He married Martha Skelton on January 1 1772.(There are no known pictures of Martha Skelton Jefferson.) They had one son and two daughters. Jefferson was in office from 1801 through 1809. He died July 4, 1826 and was buried in Montecello, Virginia.
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