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Thomas Jefferson

Color portrait of Thomas Jefferson with reddish-blonde hair and blue eyes, set within a gold frame.

Looking back at the Declaration of Independence nearly 50 years later, Jefferson explained that “[The Declaration] was intended to be an expression of the American mind... its authority rests then on the harmonizing sentiments of the day.” (Letter to Henry Lee, May 8, 1825.)

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Thomas Jefferson, from life, c. 1791-1792, by Charles Willson Peale

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