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Thomas Jefferson's father, Peter Jefferson, was a prosperous Virginia planter. His mother, Jane Randolph Jefferson, was a member of the old and distinguished Randolph family of Virginia. In 1743 the Jeffersons moved to western Goochland County, where Peter Jefferson had acquired 162 hectares (400 acres) of undeveloped land. He named his estate Shadwell. At first the family lived in a simple wood-frame house.
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Thomas Jefferson is one of the few historical Americans who need no introduction. Even the most abbreviated knowledge of American history, at home or abroad, includes the author of the Declaration of Independence. Identified around the world with democracy and human rights, Jefferson's name and words have been invoked for two hundred years in the cause of freedom and political reform. But here in his own country, where the name synonymous with democracy is exhibited everywhere--on counties, cities, schools, streets, and every imaginable form of institution, business, and product--it sometimes seems that the man himself is receding from view, and that what is commonly thought and said about him gets harder and harder to reconcile with the great national hero. With the approach of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of his birth, in 1743, it seems appropriate to note some of the ways in which Thomas Jefferson is remembered by the American public and to examine the historical lens through which the man and his contributions are seen.
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(April 29, WHYY 91FM) Thanks to a four-year, $3.5 million grant from Pennsylvania's share of the national tobacco settlement, Thomas Jefferson University has established a Center of Excellence on Neurodegenerative Diseases at Jefferson's Farber Institute for Neurosciences. The new Jefferson center will work in collaboration with the Philadelphia Corporation for Aging to conduct research on different aspects of Alzheimer's disease.
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Although he was born into one of the wealthiest families in the United States, Thomas Jefferson was deeply in debt when he died. His possessions were sold at auction. In 1831, Jefferson's 552 acres (223 hectares) were sold for $7,000 to James T. Barclay. Thomas Jefferson is buried on his Monticello estate, in Charlottesville, Virginia. In his will, he left Monticello to the United States to be used as a school for orphans of navy officers. His epitaph, written by him with an insistence that only his words and "not a word more" be inscribed, reads:
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Upon hearing the news that Congress had approved the purchase of his library, Thomas Jefferson wrote to Georgetown bookdealer Joseph Milligan asking him to come to Monticello and supervise the packing and transportation of the books to Washington. Jefferson told Milligan that he would "arrange and number all the books according as they stand in the catalogue." Jefferson was paid $23,950 for 6487 volumes based on measurements of the sizes of the books.
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Thomas Jefferson was born in Goochland County, Virginia, in 1743. In 1760, he enrolled at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. After graduation, he studied law and passed the Virginia bar exam. He worked as both a lawyer and a farmer and lived near Charlottesville, Virginia at his plantation called Monticello. He ... pursued a political career and served in the House of Burgesses, the lower chamber of Virginia's legislature.
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