He was president of the American Philosophical Society from 1797 to 1815.
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Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, served as president of the American Philosophical Society from 1797 to 1815. Jefferson was U.S. president from 1801 to 1809. A philosopher-statesman of the Enlightenment, Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence, was George Washington?s first Secretary of State and vice-president under John Adams. He was born in Virginia on April 13, 1743, and died on July 4, 1826.
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