Who was the main author of the DecWho was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?laration of Independence?
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Thomas Jefferson wasn’t recognized as the principal author of the Declaration of Independence until the 1790s; until then the document was presented as a collective effort by the entire Continental Congress. Jefferson had returned to the Virginia legislature in the late summer of 1776 and in 1785 had succeeded Franklin as minister to France. He served as Secretary of State in the cabinet of President George Washington, and later emerged as a leader of a Republican party that championed state’s rights and opposed the strong centralized government favored by Alexander Hamilton’s Federalists. Elected as the nation’s third president in 1800, Jefferson would serve two terms, during which the young nation doubled its territory through the LouisianaPurchase of 1803 and struggled to maintain neutrality during the Napoleonic Wars between England and France.
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