This Years April Mention: Thomas Jefferson

April 4, 2024 by
Zoe Nechvatal
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Thomas Jefferson,  April Birthday 


Thomas Jefferson, born April 13,1743, has his picture on the U.S. $2 bill.  This miraculous man began, at age 5, studying under his cousin’s tutor  and, at age 9, studied Latin, Greek and French.  At 14, he began classical literature and additional languages. At 16, he entered the College of William and Mary in Virginia near his home. At 19, he studied law under George Wythe; at 23  he  started his own law practice  and at 25 was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses. At age 31 he wrote the widely circulated “Summary Views of the Rights of British America”. He then retired from his law practice. At 32,  he was a Delegate to the 2nd Continental Congress and at 33 wrote the Declaration of Independence while also revising Virginia’s legal code and wrote a Public Education bill and a statute for Religious Freedom. At 36, he was elected as second Governor of Virginia, succeeding Patrick Henry. At 40, he served in Congress for two years; at 41, he was the American Minister to France and negotiated treaties with European nations   along with Benjamin Franklin and John Adams; at 53,  he served as Vice President and was elected President of the American Philosophical Society; at 55, he drafted the Kentucky Resolutions (1798) and became active head of the Republican Party ( c.1791).  At age 57, he was elected the third President of the United States (1800). At age 60, he obtained the Louisiana Purchase, doubling the nation’s size.  At 61, he was elected to a second term as President. At 65, he retired to Monticello; at 80, he helped President Monroe shape the Monroe Doctrine; at 81 he almost single-handedly created the University of Virginia and became its first President.  At age 83 he died on the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence - the same day John Adams died.


John Kennedy once held a dinner in the White House for a group of the brightest minds in the nation at that time.  He said, “This is perhaps the assembly of the most intelligence ever to gather at one time in the White House with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”





Thomas Jefferson knew because  he himself studied previous failed attempts at government. He understood actual history, the nature of God, His laws and the nature of man. That happens to be way more than what most of us understand today.


HAPPY BIRTHDAY THOMAS JEFFERSON.      

Submitted by Bev Smith and Eljorie Mason.


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