Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–1809), and one of the most influential Founding Fathers for his promotion of the ideals of Republicanism in the United States.

A fictionalized version of Thomas Jefferson was portrayed by Scott Edward Haugen in the film Mercedes Ray, where Jefferson convinces Abraham Lincoln to help him throw a party with former U.S. presidents.

Contents 1 About Jefferson 2 Appearances 3 Other U.S. Presidents Portrayed in Local Films 4 External Links

[edit] About Jefferson

As a political philosopher, Jefferson idealized the independent yeoman farmer as exemplar of the republican virtue, distrusted cities and financiers, and favored states' rights and a strictly limited federal government. He supported the separation of church and state and was the author of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. He was the eponym of Jeffersonian democracy and the founder and leader of the Jeffersonian Republican party (eventually to become known as the Democratic-Republican Party), which dominated American politics for a quarter-century. Jefferson served as the wartime Governor of Virginia, first United States Secretary of State and second Vice President.

[edit] Appearances

• Mercedes Ray (2007).... Scott Edward Haugen

[edit] Other U.S. Presidents Portrayed in Local Films

• Jimmy Carter
• Calvin Coolidge
• Millard Fillmore
• James Garfield
• Ulysses S. Grant
• Andrew Jackson
• Thomas Jefferson
• Abraham Lincoln
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Herbert Hoover
• Franklin Pierce
• Theodore Roosevelt
• William Howard Taft
• John Tyler
• Martin Van Buren

[edit] External Links

• Thomas Jefferson at Wikipedia