Diana Chetnik 10-20-13 Presidential Outline APUSH pd. 7 Jefferson Jefferson was born in 1743 in Virginia. His father was a planter and surveyor, and his mother was a noble. He studied at the College of William and Mary and read law. In 1772 he married Martha Wayles Skelton. He was the ?silent member? of the Continental Congress and wrote the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson had founded the Democratic Republic. He was Washington?s Secretary of State and Adam?s Vice-President. He opposed many Federalist policies like the establishment of the National bank, and the Alien and Sedition Acts, forming the Kentucky Resolution.