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Biography: Jefferson, Thomas
1743-1826, intellectual, statesman, and third president of the United
States. Although Jefferson served as governor of Virginia, minister to
France, secretary of state, vice president, and president, he is remembered
in history less for the offices he held than for w ....
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.... succeed George Washington as president. He lost
that contest but four years later defeated Adams to preside over the first
transfer of political power from one party to another in the history of the
young Republic. In his inaugural address in 1801, he set the ship of state
on a republican course based on faith in majority rule, simplicity and
frugality in government, limited central authority, and protection of civil
liberties and minority rights. Alexis de Tocqueville, visiting America five
years after Jefferson's death, declared Jefferson to be "the greatest
democrat whom the democracy o ....
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