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At 33, Thomas Jefferson wrote the original draft of America's historic Declaration of Independence.
An unlikely pair whose tumultuous friendship lasted half a century, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on July 4, 1826.
Thomas Jefferson cultivates a plan to buy the Port of New Orleans, but got much more than he bargained for.
Thomas Jefferson marries Martha Wales Skelton in 1772 and builds a family at Monticello.
As a young man in Virginia, Thomas Jefferson pursues an education based on the ideals of the Enlightenment.