Show thomas jeffersons versatility summing up his versatility in other fields one writer observes in in part that when thomas jefferson spoke of law one immediately thought him a lawyer when he talked of mechanics you thought him an endi engineer at the mention of medicine one was sure he was a doctor and in a discussion of literature your mind was made up that he was a college professor fifty years to the day after the signing of the declaration of independence jefferson died and at his request this simple inscription was placed on his tombstone here was buried thomas jefferson author of the declaration of independence of the statute of virginia for religious freedom and father of the university of virginia |