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| | American Revolution - Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States and Author of the Declaration of Independence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | On his tombstone, however, which he designed and for which he wrote the inscription, there is no mention of these offices. |
 | | Jefferson was born at Shadwell in what is now Albemarle County, Va., on Apr. 13, 1743. |
 | | He treated his pedigree lightly, but his mother, Jane Randolph Jefferson, came from one of the first families of Virginia; his father, Peter Jefferson, was a well-to-do landowner, although not in the class of the wealthiest planters. |
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