Thomas Jefferson
Third President of the United States (1743–1826) and principal author of the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson championed agrarian democracy, religious freedom, and westward expansion through the Louisiana Purchase, while his slaveholding presented an irresolvable contradiction with his stated ideals.
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