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Idea &
Details Thomas Jefferson is surely among the most
original, complex, and important of American

Chart political thinkers.

Thomas
Jefferson
was an He wrote the Declaration of Independence,
served two terms as President, founded the
important Library of Congress and the University of
Virginia.
Virginian

He was also an architect, inventor, scientist, and –

amongst his many other complexities - a slave-
owner who advocated the abolition of slavery.