Thomas+Jefferson

April 13, 1743: Thomas Jefferson is born 1776: Thomas Jefferson writes the Declaration of Independence 1789: Thomas Jefferson becomes Secretary of State under President George Washington 1797: Thomas Jefferson becomes Vice President under President John Adams 1801: Thomas Jefferson becomes President of the United States July 4th, 1826: Thomas Jefferson dies in Montechello, Virginia on the fiftieth anniversary of the ratification of the Declaration of Indepencence