美国文学ThomasJefferson托马斯杰斐逊简短介绍introduction

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• A polymath博学者, Jefferson achieved distinction as, among other things, a horticulturist, political leader, architect, archaeologist考古 学家, paleontologist古生物学 , inventor, and so on.
throughout his life, always expanding and changing
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Major deeds
• Jefferson was born in Albemarle County, Virginia on Apr.13,1743.
• Jefferson attended (1760-1762) the College of William and mary
• Again in the Virginia legislature, introduced a number of bills for the establishment of religious Freedom.
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• In June 1779,Jefferson was elected governor of Virginia.
• In 1785 he became minister to France.
• As the first secretary of state in Washington’s cabinet.
• Jefferson became vice-president in 1796. • He became president in 1800.
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The University of Virginia, Jefferson's "Academical Village"
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Mount Rushmore National Memorial
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Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D.C.
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Statue
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Jefferson's gravesite
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His family
• His father Peter Jefferson was a successful planter
and surveyor and his mother Jane Randolph a
member of one of Virginia's most distinguished
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Wren Building (rear), College of William & Mary where Jefferson studied
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House of Burgesses in Williamsburg, Virginia, where Jefferson served 1769–1775
• and Father of the University of Virginia.
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• During his presidency include the Louisiana Purchase (1803) and the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806).
• As a political philosopher, Jefferson was a man of the Enlightenment, the cofounder and leader of the Democratic-Republican Party, which dominated American politics for 25 years.
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His achievement
• Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States.
• Thomas Jefferson was "author of the Declaration of American Independence , of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom.
Thomas Jefferson -- author of the Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, third president of the United States, and founder of the University of Virginia -- voiced the aspirations of a new America as no other individual of his era. As a public official, historian, philosopher, and plantation owner, he served his country for over five decades.
• In 1769 he service as a representative in the Virginia House of Burgesses.
• He re presented Virginia in the Second Continental Congress in 1775.
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• The following year, he drafted the Declaration of Independence with John Adams, Benjamin Franklin , Roger Sherman, and Robert R.Livingston.
families. Having inherited a considerable landed
estate from his father, Jefferson began building
Monticello when he was twenty-six years old. Three
years later, he married Martha Wayles Skelton, with
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• In the final 17 years of his life, Jefferson’s major accomplishment was the founding (1819) of the University of Virginia.
• On July 4 , 1826 , the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence , Jefferson died at Monticello.
whom he lived happily for ten years until her death.
Their marriage produced six children, but only two
survived to adulthood. Jefferson, who never
remarried, maintained Monticello as his home
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Jefferson's home Monticello
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Governor's Palace, Governor Jefferson's residence in Williamsburg
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Independence Hall Assembly Room where Jefferson served in Congress
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