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Thomas Jefferson.

A man who saw the world as it could be and did everything he could to get it there.

Alexander Hamilton: The Man who enabled Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase with his shrewd policies (like debt assumption - cool economic hack) as Secretary of the Treasury. Federalist Papers are/were invaluable too.

Bonus point for not having a mausoleum, library or any other grand memorial as a monument to him.

...though he does have an entire Manhattan neighborhood named after him!

Also exceptionally brilliant.

Definitely. He's someone I aspire to.

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