People of Virginia in the American Revolution - Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, James Madison, Richard Henry Lee, Peyton Randolph (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 105. Chapters: Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, James Madison, Richard Henry Lee, Peyton Randolph, Patrick Henry, Benjamin Harrison V, George Rogers Clark, Stephen Trigg, George Mason, Richard Bland, William Overton Callis, Horatio Gates, Charles Scott, Jack Jouett, Peter Francisco, Israel Jefferson, William Rickman, Isaac Jefferson, Thomas Nelson, Jr., John Chavis, James Forten, George Wythe, Andrew Lewis, John Hopwood, George Mason V, Jonathan Clark, William Lee, John Brown, Henry Lee II, John Johns Trigg, Archibald Cary, John Page, William Fleming, Carter Braxton, William Grayson, Benjamin Waller, Samuel Barton, Thomas Lewis, James Armistead, William Fitzhugh, Robert Carter III, James O'Hara, Gloor, Humphrey Marshall, Arthur Lee, John Randolph, Fielding Lewis, Mary Willing Byrd, Abram Trigg, Samuel Hammond, Robert Love, George M. Bedinger, Betty Washington Lewis, James Madison, Sr., David Meriwether, Bolling Hall, Leven Powell, William Flora, John Fleming, Thomas Madison, Saul Matthews. Excerpt: Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826) was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the third President of the United States (1801-1809). He was an influential Founding Father, and an exponent of Jeffersonian democracy. Jefferson envisioned America as a great "Empire of Liberty" that would promote republicanism. At the beginning of the American Revolution, Jefferson served in the Continental Congress, representing Virginia. He then served as the wartime Governor of Virginia (1779-1781), barely escaping capture by the British in 1781. Just after the war ended, from mid-1784 Jefferson served as a diplomat, stationed in Paris, initially as a commissioner to help negotiate commercial treaties. In May 1785, he became the United States Minister to France. He was the first United States Secretary of Sta...