Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 101. Chapters: Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, James Monroe, William R. King, Levi P. Morton, Silas Deane, C. Douglas Dillon, Joel Barlow, James M. Gavin, Walter Evans Edge, Albert Gallatin, Sargent Shriver, Gouverneur Morris, William Christian Bullitt, Jr., Lewis Cass, Edward Livingston, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Pamela Harriman, John Adams Dix, Robert Milligan McLane, Richard Rush, William H. Crawford, John Armstrong, Jr., Charles E. Bohlen, Robert R. Livingston, Jesse I. Straus, John Y. Mason, William Cabell Rives, David K. E. Bruce, Joe M. Rodgers, Felix Rohatyn, Whitelaw Reid, Jefferson Caffery, Craig Roberts Stapleton, United States Ambassador to France, Arthur K. Watson, Robert Sanderson McCormick, Charles Rivkin, Horace Porter, Elihu B. Washburne, Robert Bacon, William L. Dayton, Charles J. Faulkner, John Bigelow, James Brown, James B. Eustis, Edward Follansbee Noyes, Howard H. Leach, Arthur Lee, Arthur A. Hartman, Myron T. Herrick, Evan G. Galbraith, William Short, Walter Curley, Amory Houghton, James Clement Dunn, John N. Irwin, II, William Graves Sharp. Excerpt: Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826) was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the third President of the United States (1801-1809). He was an influential Founding Father, and an exponent of Jeffersonian democracy. Jefferson envisioned America as a great "Empire of Liberty" that would promote republicanism. At the beginning of the American Revolution, Jefferson served in the Continental Congress, representing Virginia. He then served as the wartime Governor of Virginia (1779-1781), barely escaping capture by the British in 1781. Just after the war ended, from mid-1784 Jefferson served as a diplomat, stationed in Paris, initially as a commissioner to help negotiate commercial treaties. In May 1785, he became the U...