USA 1954 "Thomas Jefferson third president of the United State"
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| Issue Date | 22.10.1954 |
| ID | Michel: Scott: 1033Stanley Gibbons: Yvert: 588 UPU: N/A Category: Co |
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| Stamps in set | 1 |
| Value | 1c - Thomas Jefferson |
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| Layout | 50 stamps per sheet |
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| Perforation | 11.25x10.5 |
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| Issuing Authority | U.S. Postal Service |
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) was an American Founding Father and the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson was the nation's first U.S. secretary of state under George Washington and then the nation's second vice president under John Adams. Jefferson was a leading proponent of democracy, republicanism, and natural rights, and he produced formative documents and decisions at the state, national, and international levels.
Paleontologists such as Frederic A. Lucas, then Curator‑in‑Chief of the U.S. National Museum, and Henry Fairfield Osborn, at the time Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History, described Jefferson as having founded American vertebrate paleontology and regarded him as the discipline’s earliest guiding figure.
They crediting him with:
- Refuting Buffon’s degeneracy theory
- Encouraging systematic fossil collection
- Promoting stratigraphic awareness in excavation
- Presenting the first scientific paper on a North American fossil vertebrate
For more details about Jefferson's interest to palaeontology, please read
Thomas Jefferson the father of American Paleontologyarticle on this website.
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