Short Biography Of Thomas Jefferson

On April 13, 1743, a boy was born at Shadwell, near-present day Charlottesville, Virginia ,and was going to be, without a doubt, a key to the start of one of the most powerful countries in the world and with a government that was never seen before. Jefferson had been born into a well-off family, with his father, Peter Jefferson, being a successful planter and surveyor, and his mother, Jane Randolph Jefferson, who came from a prominent Virginian family. He formally began his studies at the age of nine, studying Latin and Greek at a local private school run by the a man named Reverend William Douglas. Years later, at the age of 14, he took his studies further up of the classical languages along with literature and mathematics with Reverend James Maury.
When he could learn all he could from Reverend Maury, he left home and enrolled at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg in 1760, taking classes in mathematics, science, rhetoric, philosophy, and literature.
In 1775, Jefferson was selected to attend the Continental Congress as a representative of the Virginia legislature, but before his journey, he came up with a theory that involved the “self governance and the rights of people who established habitat in new lands” (Signers of the Declaration of Independence), which would later be created into an article called A Summary View of the Rights of British America. He had fallen ill on his route and was delayed for several days. By the time he had arrived, the article had been published and was delivered throughout the colonies and to England where Edmund Burke had reprinted the pamphlet and it circulated widely. The following year, Thomas Jefferson, who was then a member of the committee, would be appointed to draft the Declaration of