Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson was the third president of the United States. Annabeth said he was a member of the Judgment pavilion of the dead in the Underworld.

The Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson is the author of the Declaration of Independence, a work of art that he wrote for the Second Continental Congress that said that the thirteen original colonies were angered by what King George III was doing to them by forcing them to pay tax to the British Parliment.

Lewis and Clark Expedition
Jefferson, once becoming the third president of the United States of America, wanted extra land for the U.S., land that was not in the United States territory - west of the Mississippi River.

He was the only president that had stretched U.S. boundary westward comprising of the Louisiana Purchase.

Monticello, his Virginia home
Jefferson's virginia home and plantation was Monticello. He designed Monticello using his own drawings of his Virginia home.

Personal Library
Jefferson has his personal library that was once located in Monticello, his virginia plantation home. Later, after he died, his library was transfered to the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

Trivia

 * Jefferson died on the fifth annerversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.


 * That same annerversary also saw the death of an old friend and former political enemy, John Adams, who was the second U.S. President.


 * He is one of the three judges on the Judgement pavilion of the dead in the Underworld in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians series
Although Jefferson was not mentioned at all in the series, there is a small bit in The Battle of the Labyrinth that is said that he would be one of the judges on the Judgement pavilion in the Underworld that would judge as to what Daedalus would do once he was in the Underworld of the dead.