Thomas Jefferson, in 1801, became America’s 3rd president. Exactly 25 years earlier, young Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence. This week exactly – in 1776 – he was seated in the Virginia House of Delegates, age 33. He was a man of courage and friendship. Reading hundreds of Jefferson’s letters over his extraordinary life, young Jefferson had no inclination or desire to be president of a new nation, especially one that did not yet exist. On the other hand, he was already a deep thinker, a believer in freedoms soon to appear in our Bill of Rights, speech, religion, guns,…

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