Thomas Jefferson

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Career Highlights

In office
March 4, 1801 – March 4, 1809
Vice PresidentAaron Burr (1801–1805)
George Clinton (1805–1809)
BornApril 13, 1743
Shadwell, Colony of Virginia, British America
DiedJuly 4, 1826 (aged 83)
Charlottesville, Virginia
Vice President of the United States
In office
March 4, 1797 – March 4, 1801
United States Secretary of State
In office
March 22, 1790 – December 31, 1793
United States Minister to France
In office
May 17, 1785 – September 26, 1789
Minister Plenipotentiary for Negotiating Treaties of Amity and Commerce
In office
May 12, 1784 – May 11, 1786
Delegate to the 
Congress of the Confederation
from Virginia
In office
November 3, 1783 – May 7, 1784
Governor of Virginia
In office
June 1, 1779 – June 3, 1781
Delegate to the Continental Congress
from Virginia
In office
June 20, 1775 – September 26, 1776
Political partyDemocratic-Republican
EducationCollege of William and Mary(BA)

Information of the Life of Thomas Jefferson

Cabinet Members Under Thomas Jefferson

Secretary of StateJames Madison, 1801
Secretary of the TreasurySamuel Dexter (Cont.)
Albert Gallatin, 1801
Secretary of WarHenry Dearborn, 1801
Attorney GeneralLevi Lincoln, 1801
Robert Smith, 1805
John Breckinridge, 1805
Caesar A. Rodney, 1807
Secretary of the NavyBenjamin Stoddert (Cont.)
Robert Smith, 1801

Large Events During Jefferson’s Career & Lifetime

Military service
Member of Virginia House of Burgesses
Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
Virginia Constitution
Member of Continental Congress
Declaration of Independence
Minister to France and Secretary of State
Quasi-War with France
Louisiana Purchase
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Marbury vs. Madison
Chesapeake-Leopard Affair and Embargo Act of 1807
1801 Inauguration
1805 Inauguration

Presidents

  1. George Washington
  2. John Adams
  3. Thomas Jefferson
  4. James Madison
  5. James Monroe
  6. John Quincy Adams
  7. Andrew Jackson
  8. Martin Van Buren
  9. William Henry Harrison
  10. John Tyler
  11. James K. Polk
  12. Zachary Taylor
  13. Millard Fillmore
  14. Franklin Pierce
  15. James Buchanan
  16. Abraham Lincoln
  17. Andrew Johnson
  18. Ulysses S. Grant
  19. Rutherford B. Hayes
  20. James Garfield
  21. Chester Arthur
  22. Grover Cleveland
  23. Benjamin Harrison
  24. William McKinley
  25. Theodore Roosevelt
  26. William Howard Taft
  27. Woodrow Wilson
  28. Warren G. Harding
  29. Calvin Coolidge
  30. Herbert Hoover
  31. Franklin D. Roosevelt
  32. Harry S. Truman
  33. Dwight Eisenhower
  34. John F. Kennedy
  35. Lyndon B. Johnson
  36. Richard Nixon
  37. Gerald Ford
  38. Jimmy Carter
  39. Ronald Reagan
  40. George H. W. Bush
  41. Bill Clinton
  42. George W. Bush
  43. Barack Obama
  44. Donald Trump
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