Professor Joseph Ellis, author of American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, says of the founding fathers: "They could imagine a nation-sized republic, which nobody else had ever done before.
Thomas Jefferson was a founding father of the United States and principal author of the Declaration of Independence. He later served as the third president, from 1801 to 1809.
The first American presidential sex scandal never went on trial, but rumors have persisted to this day that President and founding father Thomas Jefferson had an illicit relationship with his ...