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US Presidents and Personal Finance

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

I wonder if that could be part of our national debt problem. We toured Monticello in 2005 and learned that Thomas Jefferson, one of my favorite presidents died a pauper. Even so his surviving daughter had to live off charity. This, even though he inherited 3,000 acres and several dozen slaves from his father!