Thomas Jefferson

Born: 13-Apr-1743
Birthplace: Albemarle County, VA
Died: 4-Jul-1826
Location of death: Monticello, VA
Cause of death: Infection
Remains: Buried, Monticello Historic Site, Charlottesville, VA
Gender: Male
Religion: Unitarian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Head of State
Party Affiliation: Democrat-Republican
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: 3rd US President, 1801-09
Father: Peter Jefferson (b. 1707, d. 1757)
Mother: Jane Randolph (d. 1776)
Girlfriend: Rebecca Burwell (dated in 1760s)
Wife: Martha Wayles Skelton (b. 19-Oct-1748, dated 1770-72, m. 1-Jan-1772, d. 8-Sep-1782)
Daughter: Martha Jefferson Randolph ("Patsy", b. 27-Sep-1772, d. 1836)
Daughter: Jane Randolph Jefferson (b. 1774, d. 1775)
Son: Peter Jefferson (b. 28-May-1777, d. Jun-1777)
Daughter: Mary Jefferson Eppes ("Polly", married a Congressman, b. 1-Aug-1778, d. 1804)
Daughter: Lucy Elizabeth Jefferson (b. 1780, d. 1781)
Daughter: Lucy Elizabeth Jefferson (b. 8-May-1782, d. Oct-1784 whooping cough)
Mistress: Sally Hemings (Jefferson's slave and his wife's half-sister)
    University: College of William and Mary

Jefferson carried with him from the college of William and Mary at Williamsburg, in his twentieth year, a good knowledge of Latin, Greek and French (to which he soon added Spanish, Italian and Anglo-Saxon), and a familiarity with the higher mathematics and natural sciences only possessed, at his age, by men who have a rare natural taste and ability for those studies.

The death of his father had left him an estate of 1900 acres, the income from which (about £400) gave him the position of an independent country gentleman; and while engaged in the law he had added to his farms after the ambitious Virginia fashion, until, when he married in his thirtieth year, there were 5000 acres all paid for; and almost as much more came to him in 1773 on the death of his father-in-law.