Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson's Death

Born (Birthday) April 13, 1743

Death Date July 4, 1826

Age of Death 83 years

Cause of Death N/A

Place of Death Monticello, Virginia, United States

Place of Burial Monticello, Virginia, United States

Profession U.S. President

The US president Thomas Jefferson died at the age of 83. Here is all you want to know and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Revered Founding Father of the United States, its third president, and an author of the Declaration of Independence.

He completed his collegiate studies at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg in two years and earned his law degree five years later.

He sold his collection of 6,000 books to Congress after the British burned down the Library of Congress in 1814. He soon found himself at a loss without his books and began buying more. He served as the first Secretary of State under George Washington.

How did Thomas Jefferson die?

Thomas Jefferson’s exact cause of death has never been conclusively determined. He wrote in January 1826, [As to] the state of my health … it is now 3. weeks since a re-ascerbation of my painful complaint [a severe attack of diarrhea and difficulty urinating] has confined me to the house and indeed to my couch.

Quotes

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"Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism."

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"War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses."

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"The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world."

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"How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened."

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"My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me."

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