Who Was The Third President Of The United States?

The third president of the United States after it gained independence was none other than Thomas Jefferson, the Virginia delegate who framed the famous Declaration of Independence. Besides being a wonderfully eloquent writer, Thomas Jefferson was also a farmer, a lawyer, an architect, an inventor and a politician (first governor and eventually the President of the United States). It was in the year 1769 that Thomas Jefferson was elected in the Virginia House of Burgesses, which was also the earliest form of British colonial government in North America.

When Thomas Paine gave the idea of demanding independence, Thomas Jefferson advocated this idea thoroughly and used some of John Locke's ideas, who was a prominent thinker of the Enlightenment Era to frame the Declaration of Independence, which was an honor that was given to him by other colonial leaders who had a mutual consensus about his literary talents. It was in the year 1800 that Thomas Jefferson was made the President of the United States. He died in the year 1826, which was exactly half a century since the Declaration of Independence was written.

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