Video: 'Thomas Jefferson - Mini Biography'

(Independence Day, Tuesday, July 4, 1826, 12:50 p.m. local time) — Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States (1801–1809), an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, died this afternoon at his plantation estate Monticello near Charlottesville, Virginia, of toxemia from a kidney infection, uremia from kidney damage, and pneumonia.

Video: 'Thomas Jefferson - 3rd President of the United States Documentary'

Jefferson died at age 83 on the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and five-and-a-half hours before the death of his longtime friend and rival, former U.S. President John Adams, the father of current U.S. President John Q. Adams.

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