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More than a mere
renaissance man, Thomas Jefferson may actually have been a new kind of man. He
was fluent in five languages and able to read two others. He wrote, over the
course of his life, over sixteen thousand letters. He was acquainted with
nearly every influential person in America, and a great many in Europe as well.
He was a lawyer, agronomist, musician, scientist, philosopher, author,
architect, inventor, and statesman. Though he never set foot outside of the
American continent before adulthood, he acquired an education that rivaled the
finest to be attained in Europe. He was clearly the foremost American son of
the Enlightenment.
Thomas Jefferson ran for president in 1796, lost to John Adams, and most
uncomfortably, this made him vice president under a man whom he could no longer
abide. After a single meeting, on the street, the two never communicated
directly during the whole administration.
Jefferson again ran for the presidency in 1801 and this time he won. He served
for two terms and he did ultimately play a deciding role in forming the
character of the American Presidency. The 12th amendment to the Constitution
changed the manner in which the vice president was selected, so as to prevent
arch enemies from occupying the first and second positions of the executive.
Thomas Jefferson retired from office in 1808. He continued the private portion
of his life's work, and sometime later re-engaged his dearest and longest
friend James Madison, in the work of establishing the University of Virginia.
In 1815 one of his projects, a Library of Congress, finally bore fruit, when he
sold his own personal library to the congress as a basis for the collection.
Shortly before his death in 1826, Jefferson told Madison that he wished to be
remembered for two things only; as the Author of the Declaration of
Independence, and as the founder of the University of Virginia. Jefferson died
on the 4th of July, as the nation celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his
splendid Declaration.
You too will be remembered in this black colonial styled frock coat, knickers,
gold brocade vest and lace cuffs & jabot set.
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