Thomas Jefferson (April 13 [O.S. April 2] 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father who was central creator of the Declaration of Independence (1776). He was chosen the second Vice President of the United States (1797–1801), serving under John Adams and in 1800 was chosen third President (1801–09). Jefferson was an advocate of majority rules system, republicanism, and individual rights, which roused American pioneers to break from Great Britain and structure another country. He delivered developmental archives and choices at both the state and national level. 

Principally of English parentage, Jefferson was conceived and taught in Virginia. He moved on from the College of William and Mary and specialized in legal matters. Amid the American Revolution, he spoke to Virginia in the Continental Congress that received the Declaration, drafted the law for religious opportunity as a Virginia official, and served as a wartime senator (1779–1781). He turned into the United States Minister to France in May 1785, and in this manner the country's first Secretary of State in 1790–1793 under President George Washington. Jefferson and James Madison sorted out the Democratic-Republican Party to restrict the Federalist Party amid the arrangement of the First Party System. With Madison, he secretly composed the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions in 1798–1799, which looked to encourage states' rights contrary to the national government by invalidating the Alien and Sedition Acts. 

While President Jefferson sought after the country's delivery and exchange intrigues against Barbary privateers and forceful British exchange arrangements individually he likewise sorted out the Louisiana Purchase just about multiplying the nation's domain. As an aftereffect of peace arrangements with France, his organization diminished military powers. He was reelected in 1804. Jefferson's second term was plagued with troubles at home, including the trial of previous Vice President Aaron Burr. American remote exchange was decreased when Jefferson actualized the Embargo Act of 1807, reacting to British dangers to U.S. shipping. In 1803, Jefferson started a disputable procedure of Indian tribe expulsion to the recently sorted out Louisiana Territory, and, in 1807, marked the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves. Students of history for the most part rank Jefferson as one of the best U.S. Presidents. 

Jefferson aced numerous orders which extended from looking over and arithmetic to cultivation and innovations. He was a demonstrated draftsman in the established custom. Jefferson's unmistakable fascination in religion and theory earned him the administration of the American Philosophical Society. He evaded composed religion, however was impacted by both Christianity and deism. Other than English, he was knowledgeable in Latin, Greek, French, Italian, and Spanish. He established the University of Virginia in the wake of resigning from open office. He was a talented author and journalist. His just full-length book, Notes on the State of Virginia (1785), is viewed as the most critical American book distributed before 1800. 

Jefferson wedded Martha Wayles Skelton whose marriage created six youngsters, yet just two little girls made due to adulthood. He possessed a few ranches and claimed numerous slaves. Most students of history trust that after the passing of his wife in 1782, he had an association with his slave Sally Hemings and fathered in any event some of her youngsters. Jefferson kicked the bucket at his home in Charlottesville, Virginia, on July 4, the fiftieth commemoration of the appropriation of the Declaration of Independence.