THOMAS JEFFERSON Thomas Jefferson was born in 1743 in Albermarle County, in Virginia. He inherited his fathers farming skills and had to take care of about 5000 acres of land. His mother was of high social standing. He studied at the Collage of William and Mary, then studied law. In 1772 he married martha wayles and took her to his partly constructed mountain top home. Jefferson was a awkward person and not very good at speaking publicly, at …showed first 75 words of 248 total…

…showed last 75 words of 248 total…self-government. As he himself said, "I know my own principles to be pure and therefore am not ashamed of them. On the contrary, I wish them known and therefore willingly express them to everyone. They are the same I have acted on from the year 1775 to this day, and are the same, I am sure, with those of the great body of the American people." When Jefferson became president the crisis in France had passed.