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Thomas Jefferson An American Revolutionary Author
Thomas Jefferson
Born: April 2, 1743 - Shadwell, Virginia.
Died:
July 4, 1826 - Monticello, Virginia
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Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 (April 2, 1743 O.S.) – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the third President of the United States (1801–1809). At the beginning of the American Revolution, he served in the Continental Congress, representing Virginia and then served as a wartime Governor of Virginia (1779–1781). Just after the war ended, from mid-1784 Jefferson served as a diplomat, stationed in Paris. In May 1785, he became the United States Minister to France. Jefferson was the first United States Secretary of State (1790–1793) serving under President George Washington. With his close friend James Madison he organized the Democratic-Republican Party, and subsequently resigned from Washington's cabinet. Elected Vice-President in 1796, when he came in second to John Adams of the Federalists, Jefferson opposed Adams and with Madison secretly wrote the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, which attempted to nullify the Alien and Sedition Acts.
Elected president in what Jefferson called the Revolution of 1800, he oversaw the purchase of the vast Louisiana Territory from France (1803), and sent the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806) to explore the new west. His second term was beset with troubles at home, such as the failed treason trial of his former Vice President Aaron Burr, and escalating trouble with Britain. With Britain at war with Napoleon, he tried economic warfare against them; however, his embargo laws did more damage to American trade and the economy. In 1807, President Jefferson signed into law a bill that banned the importation of slaves into the United States. Jefferson has often been rated in scholarly surveys as one of the greatest U.S. presidents, though since the late-twentieth century, he has been increasingly criticized by historians, often on the issue of slavery.
A leader in the Enlightenment, Jefferson was a polymath who spoke five languages and was deeply interested in science, invention, architecture, religion and philosophy, interests that led him to the founding of the University of Virginia after his presidency. He designed his own large mansion on a 5,000 acre plantation near Charlottesville, Virginia, which he named Monticello. While not a notable orator, Jefferson was an indefatigable letter writer and corresponded with many influential people in America and Europe.
Jefferson owned hundreds of slaves. Yet, he was opposed to the ultimate continuation of the institution of slavery throughout his life and privately struggled with the dilemma of slavery and freedom and its compatibility with the ideals of the American Revolution, however not all historians share this view. After Martha Jefferson, his wife of eleven years, died in 1782, Jefferson remained a widower for the rest of his life; his marriage produced six children, with only two surviving to adulthood. In 1802, allegations surfaced that he was also the father of his slave Sally Hemings' children. In 1998, DNA tests revealed a match between her last child and the Jefferson male family line. Although some historians have noted that the evidence can also support other possible fathers, most have concluded that Jefferson had a long relationship with Hemings and fathered one or more of her children.
Elected president in what Jefferson called the Revolution of 1800, he oversaw the purchase of the vast Louisiana Territory from France (1803), and sent the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806) to explore the new west. His second term was beset with troubles at home, such as the failed treason trial of his former Vice President Aaron Burr, and escalating trouble with Britain. With Britain at war with Napoleon, he tried economic warfare against them; however, his embargo laws did more damage to American trade and the economy. In 1807, President Jefferson signed into law a bill that banned the importation of slaves into the United States. Jefferson has often been rated in scholarly surveys as one of the greatest U.S. presidents, though since the late-twentieth century, he has been increasingly criticized by historians, often on the issue of slavery.
A leader in the Enlightenment, Jefferson was a polymath who spoke five languages and was deeply interested in science, invention, architecture, religion and philosophy, interests that led him to the founding of the University of Virginia after his presidency. He designed his own large mansion on a 5,000 acre plantation near Charlottesville, Virginia, which he named Monticello. While not a notable orator, Jefferson was an indefatigable letter writer and corresponded with many influential people in America and Europe.
Jefferson owned hundreds of slaves. Yet, he was opposed to the ultimate continuation of the institution of slavery throughout his life and privately struggled with the dilemma of slavery and freedom and its compatibility with the ideals of the American Revolution, however not all historians share this view. After Martha Jefferson, his wife of eleven years, died in 1782, Jefferson remained a widower for the rest of his life; his marriage produced six children, with only two surviving to adulthood. In 1802, allegations surfaced that he was also the father of his slave Sally Hemings' children. In 1998, DNA tests revealed a match between her last child and the Jefferson male family line. Although some historians have noted that the evidence can also support other possible fathers, most have concluded that Jefferson had a long relationship with Hemings and fathered one or more of her children.
Early
life and career
The third of ten children,
Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743 (April 2, 1743 OS) at the family home in Shadwell, Goochland
County, Virginia, now part of Albemarle
County. His father was Peter Jefferson, a
planter and surveyor. He was of possible Welsh descent, although this remains
unclear. His mother was Jane Randolph, daughter of Isham
Randolph, a ship's captain and sometime planter.
Peter and Jane married in 1739. Thomas Jefferson was little interested and
indifferent to his ancestry and he only knew of the existence of his paternal
grandfather
Before the widower William
Randolph, an old friend of Peter Jefferson, died in 1745, he appointed Peter as
guardian to manage his Tuckahoe
Plantation and care for his four
children. That year the Jeffersons relocated to Tuckahoe, where they lived for
the next seven years before returning to Shadwell in 1752. Peter Jefferson died
in 1757 and the Jefferson estate was divided between Peter's two sons; Thomas
and Randolph. Thomas inherited approximately 5,000 acres (2,000 ha;
7.8 sq mi) of land, including Monticello and between 20–40 slaves. He took control of the property after he came
of age at 21.
Education
Jefferson began his
childhood education under the direction of tutors at Tuckahoe along with the
Randolph children. In 1752, Jefferson began attending a local school run by a
Scottish Presbyterian minister. At the age of nine, Jefferson began studying
Latin, Greek, and French; he learned to ride horses, and began to appreciate
the study of nature. He studied under the Reverend James Maury from
1758 to 1760 near Gordonsville, Virginia. While boarding with Maury's family, he studied history,
science and the classics.
At age 16, Jefferson
entered the College
of William & Mary in Williamsburg, and first met the law professor George Wythe, who became his influential mentor. He studied mathematics,
metaphysics, and philosophy under Professor William Small, who introduced the enthusiastic Jefferson to the writings of the British Empiricists, including John Locke, Francis Bacon, and Isaac Newton. He also improved his French, Greek, and
violin. A diligent student, Jefferson displayed an avid curiosity in all fields
and graduated in 1762, completing his studies in only two years. Jefferson read
law while working as a law clerk for
Wythe. During this time, he also read a wide variety of English classics and
political works. Jefferson was admitted to the Virginia bar in 1767.
Throughout his life,
Jefferson depended on books for his education. He collected and accumulated
thousands of books for his library at Monticello. When Jefferson's father Peter
died Thomas inherited, among other things, his large library. A significant
portion of Jefferson's library was also bequeathed to him in the will of George
Wythe, who had an extensive collection. After the British burned the Library of
Congress in 1814 Jefferson offered to sell his collection of more than six
thousand books to Congress for about four dollars a book. After realizing he
was no longer in possession of such a grand collection he wrote in a letter to
John Adams, "I cannot live without books". Always eager for
more knowledge, Jefferson immediately began buying more books and continued
learning throughout most of his life.
Marriage
and family
After practicing as a
circuit lawyer for several years, Jefferson married the 23-year-old widow Martha Wayles
Skelton on January 1, 1772. Martha Jefferson was attractive,
gracious and popular with her friends; she was a frequent hostess for Jefferson
and managed the large household. They had a happy marriage. She read widely,
did fine needle work and was an amateur musician. Jefferson played the violin
and Martha was an accomplished piano player. It is said that she was attracted
to Thomas largely because of their mutual love of music. During the ten years
of their marriage, Martha bore six children: Martha, called Patsy, (1772–1836); Jane (1774–1775); an unnamed son (1777); Mary Wayles, called Polly, (1778–1804); Lucy Elizabeth (1780–1781); and Lucy
Elizabeth (1782–1785). Only Martha and Mary survived to adulthood.
After her father John
Wayles died in 1773, Martha and her husband Jefferson inherited his 135 slaves,
11,000 acres (4,500 ha; 17 sq mi) and the debts of his estate.
These took Jefferson and other co-executors of the estate years to pay off,
which contributed to his financial problems. Later in life, Martha Jefferson
suffered from diabetes and ill health, and frequent childbirth further weakened
her. A few months after the birth of her last child, Martha, age 33, died on
September 6, 1782. Jefferson was at his wife's bedside and was distraught after
her death. In the following three weeks, Jefferson shut himself in his room,
where he paced back and forth until he was nearly exhausted. Later he would
often take long rides on secluded roads to mourn for his wife. As he had
promised his wife, Jefferson never remarried.
Monticello
In 1768, Jefferson began
construction of his primary residence, Monticello, on a hilltop overlooking a
5,000 acre plantation. Construction was done mostly by local masons and
carpenters, assisted by Jefferson's slaves. Jefferson moved into the South
Pavilion (an outbuilding) in 1770, where his new wife, Martha, joined him in
1772. Turning Monticello into a neoclassical masterpiece after the Palladian style would be his continuing project.
While Minister to France
during 1784–1789, Jefferson had opportunity to see some of the classical
buildings with which he had become acquainted from his reading, as well as to
discover the "modern" trends in French architecture then fashionable
in Paris. In 1794, following his service as Secretary of State (1790–93), he
began rebuilding Monticello based on the ideas he had acquired in Europe. The
remodeling continued throughout most of his presidency (1801–09). The most
notable change was the addition of the octagonal dome.
Lawyer
and House of Burgesses
Jefferson was a lawyer in
colonial Virginia from 1768 to 1773 with his friend and mentor, George Wythe.
Jefferson's client list included members of the Virginia's elite families,
including members of his mother's family, the Randolphs. Beside practicing law,
Jefferson represented Albemarle
County in the Virginia House of Burgesses beginning on May 11, 1769 and ending June 20, 1775. Following the
passage of the Intolerable Acts by the
British Parliament in 1774, Jefferson wrote a set of resolutions against the
acts. These were later expanded into A Summary View of the Rights of British America, in which he expressed his belief that people had the right to govern
themselves.
Political
career from 1775 to 1800
Declaration
of Independence
Jefferson served as a
delegate to the Second
Continental Congress beginning in June 1775,
soon after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War. He didn't know many
people in the congress, but sought out John Adams who, along with his cousin Samuel, had emerged as a leader of the
convention. Jefferson and Adams established a friendship that would last the
rest of their lives; it led to the drafting of Jefferson to write the
declaration of independence. When Congress began considering a resolution of independence in June 1776, Adams ensured that Jefferson was appointed to the five-man committee to write
a declaration in support of the resolution. After discussing the general
outline for the document, the committee decided that Jefferson would write the
first draft. The committee in general, and Jefferson in particular, thought
Adams should write the document. Adams persuaded the committee to choose
Jefferson, who was reluctant to take the assignment, and promised to consult
with the younger man. Over the next seventeen days, Jefferson had limited time
for writing and finished the draft quickly. Consulting with other committee
members, Jefferson also drew on his own proposed draft of the Virginia
Constitution, George Mason's draft
of the Virginia
Declaration of Rights, and other sources. The
other committee members made some changes. Most notably Jefferson had written,
"We hold these truths to be sacred and un-deniable..." Franklin
changed it to, "We hold these truths to be self-evident." A final
draft was presented to the Congress on June 28, 1776. The title of the document
was "A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America,
in General Congress assembled."
After voting in favor of
the resolution of independence on July 2, Congress turned its attention to the
declaration. Over three days of debate, Congress made changes and deleted
nearly a fourth of the text, most notably a passage critical of the slave
trade. While Jefferson resented the changes, he did not speak publicly about
the revisions. On July 4, 1776, the Congress ratified the Declaration of
Independence and the delegates signed the document. The Declaration would
eventually be considered one of Jefferson's major achievements; his preamble
has been considered an enduring statement of human rights. All men are
created equal has been called "one
of the best-known sentences in the English language", containing "the
most potent and consequential words in American history".The passage came
to represent a moral standard to which the United States should strive. This
view was notably promoted by Abraham Lincoln, who based his philosophy on it, and argued for the Declaration as a
statement of principles through which the United States
Constitution should be interpreted.
Virginia state legislator
and Governor
After Independence,
Jefferson returned to Virginia and was elected to the Virginia
House of Delegates for Albemarle
County. Before his return, he commented on the
drafting of the state's constitution; he continued to support freehold suffrage, by
which only property holders could vote. He served as a Delegate from September
26, 1776 – June 1, 1779, as the war continued. Jefferson wanted to abolish primogeniture and
provide for general education, which he hoped to make the basis of
"republican government." He also wanted to disestablish the Anglican
church in Virginia, but this was not done until 1786, while he was in France as
US Minister. After Thomas Ludwell Lee died in 1778 Jefferson was given the task of studying and revising the
state's laws. Jefferson drafted 126 bills in three years, including laws to
establish fee simple tenure in land and to streamline the judicial system. In
1778, Jefferson's "Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge"
and subsequent efforts to reduce control by clergy led to some small changes at
William and Mary College, but free public education was not established until
the late nineteenth century. In 1779, at Jefferson's behest, William and Mary
appointed his mentor George Wythe as the first professor of law in an American
university.
In 1779, at the age of
thirty-six, Jefferson was elected Governor of
Virginia by the two houses of the legislature. The
term was then for one year, and he was re-elected in 1780. As governor in 1780,
he transferred the state capital from Williamsburg to Richmond. Jefferson served as a wartime governor, as the united colonies
continued the Revolutionary War against Great Britain. In late 1780, as
Governor he prepared Richmond for attack by moving all military supplies to a
foundry located five miles outside of town. General Benedict Arnold learned
of the transfer and captured the foundry. He also delayed too long in raising a
militia. In January 1781 he evacuated Richmond as the war got closer. In early
June 1781, Cornwallis dispatched a 250-man cavalry force commanded by Banastre Tarleton on a
secret expedition to capture Governor Jefferson and members of the Assembly at
Monticello but Jack Jouett of the
Virginia militia, thwarted the British plan by warning them. Jefferson escaped
to Poplar Forest, his
plantation to the west. Jefferson believed his gubernatorial term had expired
in June, and he spent much of the summer with his family at Poplar Forest. His
tenure as governor in general, and his decision to flee the capital in
particular, was heavily criticized at the time, and has been criticized by
historians ever since. The members of the General Assembly had quickly
reconvened in June 1781 in Staunton, Virginia across the Blue Ridge Mountains. They voted to reward Jouett with a
pair of pistols and a sword, but considered an official inquiry into
Jefferson's actions, as they believed he had failed his responsibilities as
governor. Jefferson was not re-elected again.
Notes on
the State of Virginia
In 1780 Jefferson as
governor received numerous questions about Virginia from French diplomat François
Barbé-Marbois, who was gathering
pertinent data on the United States. Jefferson turned his written responses to
Marbois into a book, Notes on the
State of Virginia (1785). In a course of
five years, Jefferson compiled the book; he included a discussion of
contemporary scientific knowledge, and Virginia's history, politics, and ethnography.
Jefferson was aided by Thomas Walker, George R.
Clark, and geographer Thomas Hutchins. The
book was first published in France in 1785 and in England in 1787. The book is
Jefferson's argument about what constitutes a good society, which he believed
was incarnated by Virginia. It also included extensive data about the state's
natural resources and its economy. He wrote extensively about slavery, miscegenation, and his
belief that blacks and whites could not live together as free people in one
society.
Member of
Congress and Minister to France
Following its victory in
the war and peace treaty with Great Britain, in 1783 the United States formed a
Congress of
the Confederation (informally called the
Continental Congress), to which Jefferson was appointed as a Virginia delegate.
As a member of the committee formed to set foreign exchange rates, he recommended that American currency should be based on
the decimal system; his plan was adopted.
Jefferson also recommended setting up the Committee of
the States, to function as the
executive arm of Congress. The plan was adopted but failed in practice.
Jefferson wrote an ordinance banning slavery in all the nation's territories
though it wasn't passed into law. He later resigned from Congress when he was
appointed as minister to France.
When his wife died, friends
such as John Adams noted
that Jefferson seemed so depressed that he might be suicidal. They believed
that sending him to France would take his mind off his wife's death, so he was
appointed minister to France in 1785. Jefferson's tenure in France was
uneventful, partly because he found it difficult to fill the shoes of his
predecessor Benjamin Franklin, who at
the time was one of the most famous people in the world. He enjoyed the
architecture, arts, and the salon culture of Paris. He often dined with many of
the city's most prominent people, and stocked up on wines to take back to the
US. While in Paris, Jefferson corresponded with many people who had important roles
in the imminent French Revolution. These
included the Marquis de Lafayette, and the
Comte de Mirabeau, a
popular pamphleteer who repeated ideals that had been the basis for the
American Revolution.
Jefferson's eldest daughter
Martha, known as Patsy, went with him to France in 1784. His two youngest
daughters were in the care of friends in the United States. To serve the
household, Jefferson brought some of his slaves, including James Hemings, who
trained as a French chef for his master's service. Jefferson's youngest
daughter Lucy died of whooping cough in 1785 in the United States, and he was
bereft. In 1786, Jefferson met and fell in love with Maria Cosway, an
accomplished Italian-English artist and musician of 27. They saw each other
frequently over a period of six weeks. A married woman, she returned to Great
Britain, but they maintained a lifelong correspondence. In 1787, Jefferson sent
for his youngest surviving child, Polly, then age nine. He requested that a
slave accompany Polly on the trans-Atlantic voyage. By chance, Sally Hemings, a
younger sister of James, was chosen; she lived in the Jefferson household in
Paris for about two years. According to her son Madison Hemings, Sally
and Jefferson began a sexual relationship in Paris and she became pregnant. She
agreed to return to the United States as his concubine after he promised to free her children when they came of age.
Secretary
of State
In September 1789 Jefferson
returned to the US from France with his two daughters and slaves. Immediately
upon his return, President Washington wrote to him asking him to accept a seat
in his Cabinet as Secretary of State. Jefferson accepted the appointment.
As Washington's Secretary
of State (1790–1793), Jefferson argued with Alexander Hamilton, the Secretary of the Treasury, about national fiscal policy,
especially the funding of the debts of the war. Jefferson later associated
Hamilton and the Federalists with "Royalism," and said the
"Hamiltonians were panting after ... crowns, coronets and mitres." Due to their
opposition to Hamilton, Jefferson and James Madison founded and led the Democratic-Republican Party. He worked with Madison
and his campaign manager John J. Beckley to build
a nationwide network of Republican allies. Jefferson's political actions and
his attempt to undermine Hamilton nearly led Washington to dismiss Jefferson
from his cabinet. Although Jefferson left the cabinet voluntarily, Washington
never forgave him for his actions, and never spoke to him again.
The French minister said in
1793: "Senator Morris and Secretary of the Treasury Hamilton ... had the
greatest influence over the President's mind, and that it was only with
difficulty that he [Jefferson] counterbalanced their efforts." Jefferson
supported France against Britain when they fought in 1793. Jefferson believed
that political success at home depended on the success of the French army in
Europe. In 1793, the French minister Edmond-Charles
Genêt caused a crisis when he tried to influence
public opinion by appealing to the American people, something which Jefferson
tried to stop.
During his discussions with
George
Hammond, first British Minister to the U.S. from
1791, Jefferson tried to achieve three important goals: secure British
admission of violating the Treaty of Paris (1783) ; vacate their posts in
the Northwest (the territory between the Appalachian Mountains and the
Mississippi River north of the Ohio); and compensate the United States to pay
American slave owners for the slaves whom the British had freed and evacuated
at the end of the war. Chester Miller notes that after failing to gain
agreement on any of these, Jefferson resigned in December 1793.
Jefferson retired to
Monticello, from where he continued to oppose the policies of Hamilton and
Washington. The Jay Treaty of 1794,
led by Hamilton, brought peace and trade with Britain – while Madison,
with strong support from Jefferson, wanted "to strangle the former mother
country" without going to war. "It became an article of faith among
Republicans that 'commercial weapons' would suffice to bring Great Britain to
any terms the United States chose to dictate." Even during the violence of
the Reign of Terror in
France, Jefferson refused to disavow the revolution because "To back away
from France would be to undermine the cause of republicanism in America."
Election
of 1796 and Vice Presidency
As the
Democratic-Republican presidential candidate in 1796, Jefferson lost to John
Adams, but had enough electoral votes to become Vice President (1797–1801). One
of the chief duties of a Vice president is presiding over the Senate, and
Jefferson was concerned about its lack of rules leaving decisions to the
discretion of the presiding officer. Years before holding his first office,
Jefferson had spent much time researching procedures and rules for governing
bodies. As a student, he had transcribed notes on British parliamentary law
into a manual which he would later call his Parliamentary Pocket Book.
Jefferson had also served on the committee appointed to draw up the rules of
order for the Continental Congress in 1776. As Vice President, he was ready to
reform Senatorial procedures.
With the Quasi-War
underway, the Federalists under John Adams started rebuilding the military,
levied new taxes, and enacted the Alien and
Sedition Acts. Jefferson believed that
these acts were intended to suppress Democratic-Republicans rather than
dangerous enemy aliens, although the acts were allowed to expire. Jefferson and
Madison rallied opposition support by anonymously writing the Kentucky and
Virginia Resolutions, which formed the basis of
State's rights, declaring that the federal government had no right to exercise
powers not specifically delegated to it by the states. Though the resolutions
followed the "interposition"
approach of Madison, Jefferson advocated nullification. At one point he drafted a threat for Kentucky to secede. Jefferson's biographer Dumas Malone argued that had his actions become known at the time, Jefferson might
have been impeached for treason. In
writing the Kentucky Resolutions, Jefferson warned that, "unless arrested
at the threshold," the Alien and Sedition Acts would "necessarily
drive these states into revolution and blood." The historian Ron Chernow
says, "[H]e wasn't calling for peaceful protests or civil disobedience: he
was calling for outright rebellion, if needed, against the federal government
of which he was vice president."
Chernow believes that
Jefferson "thus set forth a radical doctrine of states' rights that
effectively undermined the constitution." He argues that neither Jefferson
nor Madison sensed that they had sponsored measures as inimical as the Alien
and Sedition Acts. The historian Garry Wills argued, "Their nullification effort, if others had picked it up,
would have been a greater threat to freedom than the misguided [alien and
sedition] laws, which were soon rendered feckless by ridicule and electoral
pressure." The theoretical damage of the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions
was "deep and lasting, and was a recipe for disunion". George
Washington was so appalled by them that he told Patrick Henry that if
"systematically and pertinaciously pursued", they would
"dissolve the union or produce coercion." The influence of
Jefferson's doctrine of states' rights reverberated to the Civil War and
beyond.
According to Chernow,
during the Quasi-War, Jefferson engaged in a "secret campaign to sabotage
Adams in French eyes." In the spring of 1797, he held four confidential
talks with the French consul Joseph Letombe. In these private meetings,
Jefferson attacked Adams, predicted that he would only serve one term, and
encouraged France to invade England. Jefferson advised Letombe to stall any
American envoys sent to Paris by instructing them to "listen to them and
then drag out the negotiations at length and mollify them by the urbanity of
the proceedings." This toughened the tone that the French government
adopted with the new Adams Administration. Due to pressure against the Adams
Administration from Jefferson and his supporters, Congress released the papers
related to the XYZ Affair, which
rallied a shift in popular opinion from Jefferson and the French government to
supporting Adams.
Writings
- A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774).
- Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (1775).
- Memorandums taken on a journey from Paris into the southern parts of France and Northern Italy, in the year 1787.
- Notes on the State of Virginia (1781).
- Plan for Establishing Uniformity in the Coinage, Weights, and Measures of the United States A report submitted to Congress (1790).
- Manual of Parliamentary Practice for the Use of the Senate of the United States (1801).
- Autobiography (1821).
- Jefferson Bible, or The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth.
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