3rd President - Thomas Jefferson

Our third president, Thomas Jefferson doubled the size of the country with the Louisiana Purchase. He was a prolific writer, who wrote the Declaration of Independence, and helped popularize ice cream in the United States, something I’m very grateful for. He harvested opium, was a wine connoisseur, helped found the University of Virginia, and died on the same day as John Adams, our second president. He once wrote that he believed the practice of slavery was unjust and trembled at the idea of God exacting vengeance on those who perpetuated it, but wrote this while owning one of the largest slave plantations in Virginia, half of them under the age of 16.