Randolph Jefferson was the younger brother of Thomas Jefferson, the only male sibling to survive infancy. He was a planter and owner of the Snowden plantation that he inherited from his father. He served the local militia for about ten years, making captain of the local militia in 1794. He also served during the Revolutionary War.
Wren Building, College of William & Mary; with a construction history dating back to 1695, it is part of the college's ancient campus
Banastre Tarleton's Movements historical marker in Adams Grove, Virginia
First paragraph of James T. Callender's newspaper editorial, titled "The President Again," which first exposed the purported relationship between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, one of Jefferson's teenaged slaves. September 1802.
View from hillside of Old Scott's Ferry, Scottsville, Virginia, showing train approaching railroad bridge, 1911, Library of Congress
Thomas Jefferson was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence. Following the American Revolutionary War and prior to becoming president in 1801, Jefferson was the nation's first U.S. secretary of state under George Washington and then the nation's second vice president under John Adams.
1800 portrait
The Wren Building at the College of William & Mary, where Jefferson studied
House of Burgesses in Williamsburg, Virginia, where Jefferson served from 1769 to 1775
Monticello, Jefferson's home near Charlottesville, Virginia
