Thomas Jefferson (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743, at Shadwell in Albemarle County, Virginia, the son of Jane Randolph and Peter Jefferson. He liked to emphasize his father’s frontier experiences as surveyor and cartographer instead of his family’s prominent antecedents. Educated in private schools and at the College of William and Mary, he was admitted to the bar in 1767 by his teacher, George Wythe. Throughout life, he studied agronomy, anthropology, archaeology, architecture, astronomy, biblical and legal history, botany, music, philology, and the latest scientific discoveries of his...
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