Thomas Jefferson, politician and third president of the United States is a role model. He was a horticulturist, political leader, architect, archaeologist, paleontologist, author, and inventor. He had a great love of philosophy and joined Benjamin Franklin's American Philosophical Society. Besides, for being one of the founding fathers of the United States and Third President, he wrote the Declaration of Independence and statute of Virginia for religious freedom. He also was one of the founders of the Democratic-Republican Party. He spoke Latin, Greek and French. He graduated from the College of William and Mary and worked as an attorney.
He was raised in a very influential family with many prominent people, but it was his drive and interests, which helped to bring about all his accomplishments.
Jefferson had a vast variety of interests that came out in a variety of ways. His interest in being an architect brought us federal architecture, which is a combination of Greek and Roman style buildings. He is known as the father of archaeology because of an excavation technique he developed. He was a big believer in the Age of Enlightment.
As is stated above, he gave the United States the Declaration of Independence in which is stated in the preamble;
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
These words he wrote touch many even today when people go out and seek to achieve their goals in life in the USA. It is part of the belief system. Because he believed in these words, he was able to go and achieve all that he did. He was Governor of Virginia; he served as Secretary of State, Vice-President, and of course, President. He served on the Virginia House of Delegates. He was also Minister to France. He founded the University of Virginia. He touched everyone's life then, and he still touches lives now.
