Thomas Jefferson, office furniture pioneer
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Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the USA, and many would say the greatest. He was the main author of the Declaration of Independence, he oversaw the Louisiana Purchase which secured much of the territory that makes up the modern USA, and he sent Lewis & Clark to explore the west. But possibly the greatest of all his achievements was that he invented the world's first swivel chair.
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