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Thomas Jefferson

1743 - 1826

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Thomas Jefferson (April 13 [O.S. April 2], 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father and the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson was the nation's first U.S. secretary of state under George Washington and then the nation's second vice president under John Adams. Jefferson was a leading proponent of democracy, republicanism, and natural rights, and he produced formative documents and decisions at the state, national, and international levels. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Jefferson is the 8th most popular politician (up from 9th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from United States (down from 2nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular American Politician.

Thomas Jefferson is most famous for being the 3rd president of the United States, the primary author of the Declaration of Independence, and the founder of the University of Virginia.

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Among politicians, Thomas Jefferson ranks 8 out of 19,576. Before him are Cleopatra, Elizabeth I of England, Napoleon, Adolf Hitler, Jimmy Carter, and Julius Caesar. After him are Louis XIV of France, Joseph Stalin, Akbar, Augustus, Suleiman the Magnificent, and Indira Gandhi.

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Among people born in 1743, Thomas Jefferson ranks 1. After him are Antoine Lavoisier, Madame du Barry, Jean-Paul Marat, Luigi Boccherini, Alessandro Cagliostro, Toussaint Louverture, Marquis de Condorcet, Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, Nicolai Abildgaard, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, and Martin Heinrich Klaproth. Among people deceased in 1826, Thomas Jefferson ranks 1. After him are John Adams, Carl Maria von Weber, Giuseppe Piazzi, Joseph von Fraunhofer, John VI of Portugal, Philippe Pinel, René Laennec, Joseph Proust, Maria Leopoldina of Austria, Louis-Gabriel Suchet, and Stamford Raffles.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Thomas Jefferson ranks 3 out of 20,380. Before him are Donald Trump (1946), and Jimmy Carter (1924). After him are Martin Luther King Jr. (1929), Thomas Edison (1847), J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904), Muhammad Ali (1942), Andrew Jackson (1767), Edgar Allan Poe (1809), Pope Leo XIV (1955), William McKinley (1843), and Al Pacino (1940).

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Among politicians born in United States, Thomas Jefferson ranks 3. Before him are Donald Trump (1946), and Jimmy Carter (1924). After him are Andrew Jackson (1767), William McKinley (1843), Ulysses S. Grant (1822), Martin Van Buren (1782), Hillary Clinton (1947), Abraham Lincoln (1809), James K. Polk (1795), Ronald Reagan (1911), and George Washington (1732).

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