Washington's Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826),…

Washington's Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), who becomes the second vice president and the third president of the United States, also is a redhead.

The draftsman of the Declaration of Independence of the United States, Jefferson is the statesman responsible for the Louisiana Purchase.

An early advocate of total separation of church and state, he also is the founder and architect of the University of Virginia and the most eloquent American proponent of individual freedom as the core meaning of the American Revolution.

A prolific letter writer, inventor, architect, and connoisseur, Jefferson is also dependent upon slavery and convinced that American society should remain a white man's domain.

This, despite the fact that he seems to have fathered a number of illegitimate offspring by Sally Hemings, an enslaved African-American.