My new trade of nail-making is to me in this country what an additional title of nobility or the ensigns of a new order are in Europe - Thomas Jefferson

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My new trade of nail-making is to me in this country what an additional title of nobility or the ensigns of a new order are in Europe

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Thomas Jefferson (13 April 1743 – 4 July 1826) was author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1777), founder of the University of Virginia (1819), the third president of the United States (1801–1809), a political philosopher, editor of Jefferson's Bible (1819), and one of the most influential founders of the United States.

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Alternative Names: President Jefferson T. Jefferson

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