Thomas Jefferson Coloring Page

Jefferson was only 33 when he wrote most of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. He later became the third president, and in 1803 he bought the huge Louisiana Territory from France, which doubled the size of the country.

He loved books, gardens and inventions, and he designed his own home, Monticello. After the British burned the Capitol in 1814, he sold his books to Congress, and that library became the start of the Library of Congress. The line above is from the Declaration.