The Christian Faith of the Founding Fathers
“Facts are stubborn things.”
Thomas Jefferson
Third President of the United States (1801-1809)
2nd Vice President of the United States (1797-1801)
Principal Author of the Declaration of Independence
A Founding Father of the United States
2nd Vice President of the United States (1797-1801)
Principal Author of the Declaration of Independence
A Founding Father of the United States
America’s Christian Heritage Remembered
Because much rewriting of American history is destroying the truth.
Quotation Background
The Bible, Slavery, and America’s Founders, by Stephen McDowell. Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (Trenton: Wilson & Blackwell, 1803), Query XVIII, pp. 221-222.
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 BioAmerica’s Christian Heritage
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