American History. Thomas Jefferson was the third president of the United

States of America, a diplomat, statesman, architect, scientist, and

philosopher. No leader in this period of American History was as articulate,

wise, or aware of the problems and consequences of a free society as Thomas

Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743, at Shadwell, a tobacco

plantation in Virginia. His father, Peter Jefferson, was an extremely smart

man, not to mention a self-made success, all despite the fact he was formally

uneducated. His mother, Jane Randolph was a member of one of the most

distinguished families in Virginia. Peter Jefferson died when Thomas was

14, leaving him many valuable properties and lands. As a result of being

formally uneducated himself he demanded his son Thomas be schooled. He

studied with Reverend Mr. Maury, a classical scholar, for two years, and in

1760 he attended William and Mary College. After graduating from William

and Mary in 1762, Jefferson studied law for five years under George Wythe.

In January of 1772, he married Martha Wayles Skelton and made him

throughout Europe and every place he went, he was not only an American

Embargo was heavily criticized and had not been effective. To make matters

Jefferson returned home to Monticello in 1781, and buried himself in

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