Portrait of Jefferson by artist Rembrandt Peale, believed to be from 1803. J Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence (1776) and third President of the United States (1801-1809). A plantation owner's son, Jefferson trained as a lawyer but claimed to have an abiding passion for mathematics and the natural sciences, particularly those branches applicable to agriculture. He was in contact with some of the leading figures in the European scientific Enlightenment and helped to introduce their discoveries and new ways of thinking to the United States. He also carried out systematic, archaeological excavations of American Indian burial mounds in Virginia in 1784. | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / Omikron |
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