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Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.
Letter to Danbury Baptist Association (1802)

Born: April 13, 1743
1776: Principal author of the Declaration of Independence.
1779–1781: Governor of Virginia
1779: Author of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (reintroduced by James Madison and passed in 1786)
1789-1793: U.S. Secretary of State
1797–1801: Second Vice President of the United States
1801–1809: Third President of the United States
1803: Louisiana Purchase
1804–1806: Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806).
1819: Founder of the University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA)
Died: July 4, 1826

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