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Thomas Jefferson, a Brief Biography Born April 13, 1743, at Shadwell, Virginia; died July 4, 1826, Monticello 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. His family His father Peter Jefferson was a successful planter and surveyor and his mother Jane Randolph a