Jefferson’s Revolutionary Louisiana Purchase

In 1743, Thomas Jefferson was born to one of the most powerful families in the most powerful of Britain's 13 North American colonies.

An unlikely pair whose tumultuous friendship lasted half a century, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on July 4, 1826.

At 33, Thomas Jefferson wrote the original draft of America's historic Declaration of Independence.

Thomas Jefferson marries Martha Wales Skelton in 1772 and builds a family at Monticello.