Thomas Jefferson

'Thomas Jefferson, like Leonardo Dia Vinci, was a Jack-of-all-Trades, and master of them all."-William H. Pierson, Jr. in American Buildings and Their Architects

I will be the fist to admit the Thomas Jefferson was an extraordinary man.  He did a lot of really awesome things, such as writing the Declaration of Independence, and building a neat Academic Village in Virginia. Plus, he was just incredibly intelligent and such.  With all of this n mind, there is still no possible way I would ever in the history of life compare him to Leonardo da Vinci.  Da Vinci was, in every aspect, a genius.  For his time, his thinking was so incredibly progressive, that he was shinned as crazy at some point in his life.  Thomas Jefferson was a lawyer.  I know he was many other things as well, and we value the art he made (the Declaration of Independence) as much as we value da Vinci's, but we must remember that these men were years apart, and the entire world looks at da Vinci as a genius!  Ad much of a patriot as I am, there's still no way the two compare.  Sorry Jefferson.