Thomas Jefferson


 * Organized Louisiana Purchase
 * Principal author of the Declaration of Independence
 * 3rd US President
 * Served in the House of Burgesses
 * Wrote: 
 * Notes on the State of Virginia
 * A Summary View of the Rights of British America
 * A Manual of Parliamentary Practice
 * ​Senators should be 30 years olf and a citizen for 9 years
 * Passed the embargo act to protect US neutrality in response to the Chesapeake-Leopold Affair
 * Tobias Lear and William Eaton ended a conflict against Karamanli by capturing Tripoli
 * George Wythe tutored him in law