He was president of the American Philosophical Society from 1797 to 1815.
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.
