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 * Thomas Jefferson was a nice, caring man who knew what he was doing. Thomas Jefferson had been born into a [|Virginia plantation] family and was one of ten children. He had many talents such as: riding, hunting, singing, dancing and playing the violin.When Jefferson was 16, he could already speak 5 languages and was on his way to college.. Jefferson once said that, “not a sprig of grass [is] uninteresting to me,” (__History Alive! The United States__ Chapter 11; 150). After he got his inheritance from his father, he became a tobacco plantation owner and started his life in politics. Also in his lifetime, he married a woman by the name of Martha Wayles Skelton. Before she died ten years after their marriage, they had ten children together; however, only two of the ten children survived, Mary and Martha. In his political life, he couldn’t eloquently speak so he wrote what he wanted to say and is praised still for his work in The Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson had been shaped by his background and was a great man. **


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