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#3 · 1801–1809
Thomas Jefferson
Democratic-Republican · Wrote the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson wrote most of the Declaration of Independence. As president he made the Louisiana Purchase, which doubled the size of the country. Like several early leaders, he also enslaved people — a deeply wrong part of that time.
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He was an inventor and book-lover who could read in several languages, and he founded the University of Virginia.
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