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Thomas Jefferson's Childhood

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Thomas Jefferson was an author, a lawyer, philosopher, architect, and best known as the 3rd president of the United States of America. He was born on a plantation at shadwell in April 13, 1743. Peter Jefferson and Jane Randolph were his parents they had 8 children and Thomas Jefferson was the 3rd oldest of the 6 girls and his one and only brother. Jefferson graduated on 1762 from the William and Mary college he studied a lot and enjoyed playing the violin. He studied law and started his job as a lawyer in 1767 and was a member of the Virginia’s House of Burgesses from 1769 to 1775. Jefferson got married to a young widow Martha Walyes Skelton in 1772 and had 6 children together but in 1782 Martha died of childbirth problems although Jefferson

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