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OCR Page 1 of 22Page 2 -- Maryville
Virginia, Minister to France, Secrotary of State in
Washington's Cabinet, founder of the University of
Virginia, the second Vice and the third
President
President of the United States.
Jefferson was born on April 2, 1743, Old Style,
April Thirteenth by our present reckoning, at Shadwell,
Virginia. His father wa3 a large lend-owner and
slaveholder. He wes the eldest of eight children,
started to school at five, went to Latin School at
nine, entered Williem and Mary College at seventeen.
He stayed at that school two years and then sterted
the atudy of law in the office of George Wythe
considered tha greatest lawyer of his time, a signer
of the Declaration of Independence and law preceptor
of Henry Clay.
Jefferson was admitted to practice in Virginie in
1767. lie was a successful lawyer for a short time,
and then in 1769 he was elected to the provincial
legisleture of Virginie and bie public career begen.
In his first tem in the legislature, he tried to get
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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
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