Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826)
Virginia colonial legislature 1769-1775
Virginia delegate to the Continental Congress 1775-1776
Author of the American Declaration of Independence 1776
Member, Virginia House of Delegates 1776-1779
Governor of Virginia 1779-1781
Member of the United States Congress 1783-1784
Trade minister to France 1784-1785
Minister to France 1785-1789
Secretary of State 1790-1793
Vice President of the United States 1797-1801
President of the United States 1801-1809
President of the American Philosophical Society 1797-1815
Founder of the University of Virginia 1819
(1906-1989)
Nobel Laureate 1969
(1909-2001)
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