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 * Memorial finished in 1943
 * Located in Washington's Monumental Core
 * Jefferson was the 3rd president and had many more accomplishments
 * One of the Founding Fathers
 * Monument reflects 6 major things of Jefferson's life
 * Interior of monument contains a statue of Jefferson and passages from the Preamble and Declarartion of Independcence
 * Jefferson Monument is set facing the white house to represent the age of enlightment and Jefferson as a philosopher and a statesman
 * At first the memorial was publicly criticized because it was put over the Japanese flowering cherry trees on the South Bank of theTidal Basin

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