Creating the United States

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While serving as a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1776, Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), a Virginia planter and revolutionary leader, drafted the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson wielded one of the sharpest and most skilled pens in the revolutionary cause and during the formative years of the United States. He became the third president (1801–1809).
While serving as a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1776, Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), a Virginia planter and revolutionary leader, drafted the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson wielded one of the sharpest and most skilled pens in the revolutionary cause and during the formative years of the United States. He became the third president (1801–1809).