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Thomas Jefferson

1743 CE – 1826 CE · 83 years

The man who wrote the words that launched a nation — author of the Declaration of Independence, architect of the Louisiana Purchase, founder of the University of Virginia, and the president who doubled the size of a republic while wrestling with slavery’s shadow.

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1694 CE – 1778 CE

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