Thomas Jefferson: A Good President And A Good Person

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Thomas Jefferson
This report is about Thomas Jefferson and I will be giving you information on his past before he was president I will give you fun facts and I will tell you his hobbies. Thomas Jefferson was a good president and a good person.

Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743. Thomas Jefferson died on July 4, 1826 at the age of 83. One of Thomas Jefferson’s memories is when he was 3 and he went on a 50 mile horseback ride with his father’s slave and his family to the Virginia wilderness to a plantain that his father had to manage. His family was him his younger brother his dad his mom and his 3 sisters. When he was nine years old he went to school for nine months a year. He excelled in classical languages until he turned sixteen.

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