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Thomas Jefferson by Chase Thomas Jefferson was born in 1743 in Virginia.

In 1757 Thoma's dad died and in the same year he made a friend by tricking him in a horse race.

In 1765 the stamp act had begun by King George the third. In 1776 the Declaration of Independence was approved.

 In1800 Thomas was elected third president, four years later he was elected again. Thomas Jefferson was the first president inaugurated in the new capital Washington D.C.. While Thomas was president he lowered taxes and the number of people who worked for the government. For the last years of Thomas Jefferson life he made invention like a wine dumbwaiter in side of a chimney piece.

On July 4 1826 was exactly fifty years after the Declaration of Independence was approved. On the sameday Thomas Jefferson died at age eighty-three.