I need facts on Thomas Jefferson?

Question

ok i need interesting facts on the third president of our country. please give anything youve got and thank you! :)

yeah..im gonna punch u in the face over not answering a question.... *sigh*

yeah i know i did type in google and yahoo and asked here for additional support. what i find on the net isnt very interesting...but look at it this way..you get points for answering

Answer 1

Jefferson was six feet, two-and-one-half inches (189 cm) in height, slender, erect and sinewy. He had angular features, a very ruddy complexion, strawberry blond hair and hazel-flecked, grey eyes.

Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 N.S. – July 4, 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–1809), principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and an influential founder of the United States. With James Madison he founded the Jeffersonian Republican Party in 1792. Major events during his presidency include the Louisiana Purchase (1803), the Embargo Act of 1807, and the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806).

A political philosopher who promoted republicanism and the separation of church and state, he was the author of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1779, 1786), which was the basis of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. He was the eponym of Jeffersonian democracy and the founder and leader of the Jeffersonian Republican Party, which dominated American politics for over a quarter-century. Jefferson also served as the second Governor of Virginia (1779–1781), first United States Secretary of State (1789–1793), and second Vice President (1797–1801).

In addition to his political career, Jefferson was a plantation owner, horticulturist, architect, archaeologist, paleontologist, author, inventor, violinist, and the founder of the University of Virginia. President John F. Kennedy welcomed forty-nine Nobel Prize winners of the Western Hemisphere to the White House in 1962, saying, "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."[1

Answer 2

I can't give you direct information. I can, however, suggest that you get onto the Google website, type in his name, and you should be able to get lots of information about him. If you have either the software from either Encyclopedia Britainica or the Microsoft Encarta, type in his name, and you should be able to get lots of information about him as well. My personal preference is using the Encyclopedia Britainica because I find it to be super informative on both this and as well as on many other matters. The one thing that I do recall hearing about him was that back when slavery was allowed, that he did have a few. How I know about that fact is because I recall that when Bill Clinton was president, that his middle name was William Jefferson, and that a story leaked out about the artifact that Jefferson had slaves.

Answer 3

Freckled and reddish sandy-haired, rather tall and awkward, Jefferson was exactly 6"2 1/2.

His father Peter Jefferson -successful planter and surveyor
Jane Randolph - a member of one of Virginia's most distinguished families.


born in 1743 in Albemarle County, Virginia, inheriting from his father. a planter and surveyor, some 5,000 acres of land. He studied at the College of William and Mary, then read law.
Jefferson began building Monticello (his house, italian for little mountain) when he was twenty-six years old. Three years later(1772), he married Martha Wayles Skelton, with whom he lived happily for ten years until her death. Their marriage produced six children, but only two survived to adulthood


As a reluctant candidate for President in 1796, Jefferson came within three votes of election. Through a flaw in the Constitution, he became Vice President, although an opponent of President Adams. The next year he won and became prezzy though.

author of the Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and founder of the University of Virginia

he waz a public official, historian, philosopher, and plantation owner, he served USA for over five decades.woah

owned about 200 slaves. Woah


He died on July 4, 1826, just hours before his close friend John Adams, on the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. He was eighty-three years old, and died with LOTS of debts. Alot of people gatherd all at once in his bedroom. I actually stood in his house, in his bedroom, close to where he has died.

HERE WAS BURIED
THOMAS JEFFERSON
AUTHOR OF THE
DECLARATION
OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
OF THE
STATUTE OF VIRGINIA
FOR
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
AND FATHER OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

what his tombstone said, i saw it

By the way, i wrote all this, NOT copy and paste it.

Answer 4

I started laughing when I read your question. It struck me like your Michael Chiklis (Vic Mackey on the Shield) and your going to punch me in the face if I don't know.

Answer 5

primary writer of the Declaration of Independence

Answer 6

lived 1743–1826
Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743

http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/reference/wak/presidents/jefferson_thomas.html

Answer 7

Try this:
http://sc94.ameslab.gov/TOUR/tjefferson.html

And this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson

Answer 8

He was a Deist, meaning he belived in God, but he thought that he had no further interests in his creations after they were created.

Answer 9

this is definitely something you could have just typed into google or yahoo and gotten plenty of info for

Answer 10

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=Thomas+Jefferson+facts&btnG=Search
He was something!