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A REVOLUTIONARY CHAIR

here is no denying that Thomas Jefferson was one of the most skilled statesman and politicians in American history. The country’s first secretary of state and third president, he was also a keen student of gardening, architecture, and mechanical devices. These disparate interests led his Federalist nemesis William Loughton Smith to assert in 1796 that “science

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