Died: July 4, 1826 in Monticello in Virginia
Notable accomplishments:
- Farmer & plantation owner
- Gardener & botanist
- Musician & violinist
- Scientist/Inventor
- Astronomer
- Mathematician
- Economist & Father of the American monetary system
- Attorney & legislator
- Surveyor
- Archaeologist
- Paleontologist
- Art enthusiast
- Bibliophile & owner of a personal library of over 7,000 volumes
- Linguist who could read in 7 languages
(English, Anglo-saxon, French, Latin, Spanish, Greek and Italian)
- Meteorologist
- Medical pioneer
- Architect, most well known for designing:
Monticello
The Estate at Poplar Forest
The Virginia State Capitol
The University of Virginia
- Author of NOTES ON THE STATE OF VIRGINIA,
- A founding member of the Virginia Committee of Correspondence
- Member of the Colonial House of Burgesses, 1769-1774
- A delegate to the Second Continental Congress, 1775-1776
- Author of the Declaration of Independence, 1776
- Governor of Virginia, 1779-1781
- Served in Continental Congress, 1783-1784
- Appointed Minister to France, 1785-1790
- Secretary of State, 1790-1793
- First administrator of the U.S. Patent Office
- Vice President of the United States, 1797-1801
- President of the United States, 1801-1809
- Negotiated the Louisiana Purchase
- Planned and organized the Lewis & Clark Expedition
- President of the American Philosophical Society, 1797-1815
- Founded the University of Virginia
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