Thomas Jefferson was born in Albemarle County, Virginia in 1743. His father owned a 5,000 acre plantation. After graduating from the William and Mary College, Williamsburg, he became a lawyer.
A member of the Revolutionary Party, Jefferson was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses, in 1769. Five years later he was a delegate at the Continental Congress and in 1776 he was the chairman of the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Jefferson served as Governor of Virginia (1779-81) and as a member of the Continental Congress (1783-84). In 1785 he was appointed as Minister of France, a post he held for three years. His sympathy for the French Revolution brought him into conflict with Alexander Hamilton of the Federalist Party.
George Washington was unanimously elected as the first President of the United States and was inaugurated on 30th April, 1789, in New York City. Washington appointed Jefferson as his Secretary of State and Alexander Hamilton as......
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