Presidential Collection No. 3 Thomas Jefferson

The LOVE DC(R) Presidential Collection is a series of BITRIC(R) composition books designed to commemorate the presidents of the United States of America. Learners can reacquaint themselves with history as they study the impact these global leaders have made in the world. Thomas Jefferson, a spokesman for democracy, was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and the third President of the United States (1801-1809).
In the thick of party conflict in 1800, Thomas Jefferson wrote in a private letter, "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
This powerful advocate of liberty was born in 1743 in Albemarle County, Virginia, inheriting a slave plantation from his father, a planter and surveyor, some 5,000 acres of land, and from his mother, a Randolph, high social standing. He studied at the College of William and Mary, then read law. In 1772 he married Martha Wayles Skelton, a widow. Jefferson also fathered 4 child with Sally Hemmings. She was an enslaved African who gave birth to her first child by Jefferson at the tender age of 16 years old.