<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/36b52f01-bb61-45d7-a577-b5a6c96f136a/B1F0E29E-D557-4C9D-A249-EB4D68C97AE5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Jefferson&oldid=313564280" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Jefferson&oldid=313564280" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Jefferson&oldid=313564280"><DIV class="thumbinner"><A class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Monticello.jpg"><IMG height="117" width="180" class="thumbimage" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Monticello.jpg/180px-Monticello.jpg" alt="" /></A> <DIV class="thumbcaption"> <DIV class="magnify"><A title="Enlarge" class="internal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Monticello.jpg"><IMG height="11" width="15" alt="" src="http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/magnify-clip.png" /></A></DIV> Monticello</DIV> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Jefferson&oldid=313564280"><DIV class="thumbinner"><A class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Jefferson_Presidential_$1_Coin_obverse.png"><IMG height="180" width="180" class="thumbimage" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Thomas_Jefferson_Presidential_%241_Coin_obverse.png/180px-Thomas_Jefferson_Presidential_%241_Coin_obverse.png" alt="US $1 coin bearing full face engraving of Jefferson" /></A> <DIV class="thumbcaption"> <DIV class="magnify"><A title="Enlarge" class="internal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Jefferson_Presidential_$1_Coin_obverse.png"><IMG height="11" width="15" alt="" src="http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/magnify-clip.png" /></A></DIV> Presidential Dollar of Thomas Jefferson</DIV> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Jefferson&oldid=313564280"><DIV class="thumbinner"><A class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Declaration_independence.jpg"><IMG height="118" width="180" class="thumbimage" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Declaration_independence.jpg/180px-Declaration_independence.jpg" alt="Trumbull's Declaration of Independence painting, with the five-man drafting committee presenting its work to the Continental Congress. Jefferson is the tall figure in the center laying the Declaration on the desk." /></A> <DIV class="thumbcaption"> <DIV class="magnify"><A title="Enlarge" class="internal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Declaration_independence.jpg"><IMG height="11" width="15" alt="" src="http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/magnify-clip.png" /></A></DIV> In <A title="John Trumbull" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Trumbull">John Trumbull</A>'s painting <I><A title="Trumbull's Declaration of Independence" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumbull%27s_Declaration_of_Independence">Declaration of Independence</A></I>, the <A title="Committee of Five" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_of_Five">five-man drafting committee</A> is presenting its work to the Continental Congress. Jefferson is the tall figure in the center laying the Declaration on the desk.</DIV> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Jefferson&oldid=313564280"><P><B>Thomas Jefferson</B> (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826)<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-B-D_1-0"><A href="#cite_note-B-D-1"><SPAN>[</SPAN>2<SPAN>]</SPAN></A></SUP> was the <A title="List of Presidents of the United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States">third</A> <A title="President of the United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States">President of the United States</A> (1801–1809), the principal author of the <A title="United States Declaration of Independence" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence">Declaration of Independence</A> (1776), and one of the most influential <A title="Founding Fathers of the United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founding_Fathers_of_the_United_States">Founding Fathers</A> for his promotion of the ideals of <A title="Republicanism in the United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republicanism_in_the_United_States">republicanism in the United States</A>. Major events during his presidency include the <A title="Louisiana Purchase" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Purchase">Louisiana Purchase</A> (1803) and the <A title="Lewis and Clark Expedition" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_and_Clark_Expedition">Lewis and Clark Expedition</A> (1804–1806).</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B1F0E29E-D557-4C9D-A249-EB4D68C97AE5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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