JEFFERSON Memorial (ca. 1943) on the south side of the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C. by Rudolph Evans located in James M. Goode's Potomac Park area

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Thomas Jefferson (13 April 1743 – 4 July 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–1809), the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and one of the most influential Founding Fathers for his promotion of the ideals of Republicanism in the United States. Major events during his presidency include the Louisiana Purchase (1803) and the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806).

As a political philosopher, Jefferson was a man of the Enlightenment and knew many intellectual leaders in Britain and France. He idealized the independent yeoman farmer as exemplar of republican virtues, distrusted cities and financiers, and favored states' rights and a strictly limited federal government. Jefferson supported the separation of church and state and was the author of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1779, 1786). He was the eponym of Jeffersonian democracy and the co-founder and leader of the Democratic-Republican Party, which dominated American politics for a quarter-century and was the precursor of the modern-day Democratic Party. Jefferson served as the wartime Governor of Virginia (1779–1781), first United States Secretary of State (1789–1793) and second Vice President (1797–1801).

A polymath, Jefferson achieved distinction as, among other things, a horticulturist, statesman, architect, archaeologist, paleontologist, author, inventor and founder of the University of Virginia. When President John F. Kennedy welcomed forty-nine Nobel Prize winners to the White House in 1962 he said, "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent and of human knowledge that has ever been gathered together at the White House—with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone." Source: Wikipedia

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More Info
See James M. Goode's
'Washington Sculpture'(hardcover p 494 Item #11.05; Potomac Park area);
'Outdoor Sculpture'(paperback p393 Item #K-3)
Medium: Bronze
Artist: Rudolph Evans
Related subjects: .MAJOR ATTRACTIONS; History, American; Revolutionary War; US Presidents; Thomas Jefferson
Location: Basin Drive & Ohio Drive Washington, D.C.
See Potomac Park areain James Goode's Washington Sculpture
Nearest Metro: Smithsonian(Orange - Blue - Silver) (click station name for all sculptures nearby)
Smithsonian American Art Museum's Art Inventories Catalog: Control number 77002521 (dcMem ID #1110 )

Links & other sources
The Names of Washington D.C.(p119)
National Parks Service website
Wikipedia article on Jefferson
PBase.com photo
NPS.gov List of Classified Structures Jefferson Memorial
NPS.gov List of Classified Structures Jefferson Memorial statue

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