other accomplishments / passions
of Thomas Jefferson (ran for President in 1796, 1800, 1804)
book collector;
art curator ;
owned 20 - 40 human employees
in the status of enslaved for life;
horticulturist;
correspondent to friends / associates;
father of 6 with Martha Wayles (wife) also
father of 6 with Sally Hemings (1790s-1808);
religion: no affiliation;
interest in medicine and physicians' opinions.
Besides the Presidency, Jefferson was
author of Declaration, founder of Univ. Virginia,
composed document/
statute for Virginia for Religious Freedom.
that statute of "disestablishment" of the
Episcopal / Church of England guarantees
religious liberty -- whether one believes
and professes or just the opposite . . .
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