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Thomas Jefferson

Third President of the United States (1801-1809)
2nd Vice President of the United States (1797-1801)
An American Founding Father
Principal Author of the Declaration of Independence

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

The Declaration of Independence enshrines three basic rights: the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The right to life is the only fundamental right, from which all other rights are derived.


Biography
Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the third President of the United States (1801–1809). At the beginning of the American Revolution, he served in the Continental Congress, representing Virginia and then served as a wartime Governor of Virginia (1779–1781). Just after the war ended, from mid-1784 Jefferson served as a diplomat, stationed in Paris. In May 1785, he became the United States Minister to France. » Full Bio

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This Day In History 233 Years Ago

June 3, 1780

Former Massachusetts Governor Thomas Hutchinson
Dies In England

The American Revolutionary War

On this day in 1780, the reviled former royal governor of Massachusetts, Thomas Hutchinson, who served from 1771 to 1774, dies in Brompton, England.

In one of American history's great ironies, Hutchinson, the great-great-grandson of one of the most famous people to be expelled from Massachusetts for being too radical, the religious leader Anne Hutchinson (1591-1643), was exiled from Massachusetts for being too conservative.

Born in Boston in 1711, Thomas Hutchinson began life with all the advantages of the merchant-elite class to which his father belonged. Hutchinson quickly established his intelligence and business savvy by graduating from Harvard at age 15; he accumulated significant wealth in his own right by age 24. In 1737, Hutchinson, now a married man, entered politics as a Boston selectman and representative to the General Court. He immediately began lobbying against the use of paper currency--thought to favor the economic position of the poor--and in 1749 he succeeded in pushing the adoption of hard currency, based upon British silver, through the Massachusetts Assembly. Although his political career continued to flourish, his popularity with the average people of Boston would never recover from this act, which they considered detrimental to their financial interest. » Full Article

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