Comparing Jefferson And Jefferson

He was born on a plantation in Virginia on april 14 1743. His parents were Jane Randolph Jefferson and Peter Jefferson, a successful planter. He had six sisters and one brother. He studied at the College of William and Mary and then went to reading law. In 1772 he married Martha Wayles Skelton and built a home for themselves. They called it Monticello. Martha and Thomas lived together happily for ten years before her death. Together they were able to have six children but only two survived into adulthood. Jefferson never married but stay in Monticello for the rest of his life.
Jefferson began his political career as a member of Virginia's House of Burgesses. During this time he published the pamphlet “A summary View of the Rights of British America”. Jefferson was a strong supporter of American independence from Great Britain. In 1775 he attended the the Second Continental Congress. Here he was appointed to a very important job. Jefferson was part of the five man committee to draft the Declaration of Independence along with John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston. He was the one to

During this time he would but heads with Alexander Hamilton who was the Secretary of the Treasury. Jefferson co-founded the Democratic-Republican Party to counter the Federalist Party that belonged to Hamilton. Hamilton favored a strong national government and did not agree with Jefferson’s ideas about a strong state and local government. In the election of 1796 Jefferson ran against John Adams and lost. Since he received the second highest number of votes he became the vice president.Jefferson ran against Adams again in 1800. He won but was tied with the other Democratic-Republican Aaron burr. The House of Representatives voted Jefferson into office and Congress proposed the twelfth amendment to stop this from happening