... live in his partly constructed home, Monticello. As the uprising of the American Revolution broke, Jefferson was a leading lawyer, successful planter, lover of books, science, and music, a devoted husband and father and at the time a loyal subject of the king. For the next three years as a ... drafted two Virginia state resolutions proclaiming Parliament's misuse of legislative rights as well as rejecting the British Minister, Lord North's conciliatory proposals. On June 7, 1776 Jefferson joined with Ben Franklin, John Adams, Robert Livingston and Roger Sherman to became apart of a Congr...

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