Thomas Jefferson

POLITICAL PARTY
Democratic-Republican

EDUCATION
College of William and Mary 1762
Read law with George Wyethe, Williamsburg, Virginia

VITALS
6 ft 2.5 in / 174 lbs

CAREER
1767-79 Practiced law in Albemarle County, Virginia
1769-74 Member, Virginia House of Burgesses
1775-76 Delegate, Continental Congress
1776 Drafter, signer, Declaration of Independence
1779-81 Governor of Virginia
1783-85 Member, Continental Congress
1785-89 Minister to France
1790-93 U.S. Secretary of State (Washington)
1797-1801 U.S. Vice President (Adams)

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
November 2, 1800 - February 17, 1801
Popular: Jefferson 41,330 (61%) John Adams 25,952 (39%)
Electoral: Aaron Burr 73 Jefferson 73 Adams 65
House of Representatives Vote (36 ballots) Jefferson 10 Burr 4
November 2 - 9, 1804
Popular: Jefferson 104,110 (73%) Charles C. Pinckney 38,919 (27%)
Electoral: Jefferson 164 Pinckney 14

VICE PRESIDENTS
Aaron Burr (1801-05)
George Clinton (1805-09)

ADMINISTRATION
First Barbary War (1802); Marbury v. Madison, Louisiana Purchase (1803); 12th Amendment (Presidential election), Lewis & Clark Expedition (1804); Embargo Act (1807, repealed 1809)

SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENTS
William Johnson, Henry Brockholst Livingston, Thomas Todd

NEW STATES
Ohio (1803)

FIRST LADY
Martha "Patsy" Randolph, daughter (1801-1809)

POST-PRESIDENCY
1819 Founded University of Virginia

Portrait of Thomas Jefferson by Rembrandt Peale, 1800.