Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson was a politician, scientist and architect

of the U.S.

• He was born on April 13,

1743  and died on July 4 1823.

• He was the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom , the third President of the United States and founder of the University of Virginia. He was an influential Founding Father and an exponent of Jeffersonian democracy.