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Thomas Jefferson
Third President
Lived: April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826
Term: 1801-1809
Spouse: Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson
Quote: "Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."
-First Secretary of State (1789-1793)
-Second Vice-President (1797-1801)
-Second Governor of Virginia (1779-1781)
-Approved the Louisiana Purchase (1803)