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Founding father

Nature volume 396, pages 13–14 (1998)Cite this article

Almost two hundred years ago Thomas Jefferson was alleged to have fathered a children by his slave Sally Hemings. The charges have remained controversial. Now, DNA analysis confirms that Jefferson was indeed the father of at least one of Hemings' children.

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Figure 1: Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), third president of the United States.

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  1. Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and the Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 02142, Massachusetts, USA

    Eric S. Lander

  2. Department of History, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, 01075, Massachusetts, USA

    Joseph J. Ellis

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Lander, E., Ellis, J. Founding father. Nature 396, 13–14 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/23802

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