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Download a free copy of the Last Will and Testament of Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826).

• Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and one of the most influential Founding Fathers.
• Major events during his presidency include the Louisiana Purchase (1803) and the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806), as well as escalating tensions with both Britain and France that led to war with Britain in 1812, after he left office.
• Jefferson also achieved distinction as a horticulturalist, political philosopher, architect, archaeologist, paleontologist, inventor, and founder of the University of Virginia. To date, Jefferson is the only president to serve two full terms in office without vetoing a single bill of Congress.

Source of biographical information: Wikipedia.org

Download this free copy of the Last Will of Thomas Paine (1737-1809).

• Thomas Paine was a radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, who is probably best known for writing the pamphlet "Common Sense", advocating America's independence from Great Britain, and for his book The Age of Reason which promotes reason and free thinking and argues against institutionalized religion.
• Paine was deeply involved in the early stages of the French Revolution. Despite not speaking French, he was elected to the French National Convention in 1792. The Girondists regarded him as an ally, so, the Montagnards, especially Robespierre, regarded him as an enemy. In December of 1793, he was arrested and imprisoned in Paris, then released in 1794. Paine remained in France during the early Napoleonic era, but condemned Napoleon's dictatorship, calling him "the completest charlatan that ever existed".
• In 1802, at President Jefferson's invitation, he returned to America where he died on June 8, 1809. Only six people attended his funeral as he had been ostracized for his attacks of Christianity.

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Download this free copy of the Last Will and Testament of Walt Disney (1901-1966).

• Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, director, voice actor, animator, showman, entrepreneur and philanthropist, as well as an innovator in animation and theme par design. Disney is famous for his influence in the field of entertainment during the twentieth century.
• As the co-founder (with his brother Roy O. Disney) of Walt Disney Productions, Disney became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. The corporation he co-founded, now known as The Walt Disney Company, today has annual revenues of approximately U.S. $35 billion.
• Disney died of lung cancer on December 15, 1966, a few years prior to the opening of his Walt Disney World Resort dream project in Florida.

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Download this free copy of the Last Will and Testament of Whitney Houston (1963 - 2012).

• Whitney Houston was an American singer and actress who was one of the best-selling recording artists of all time.
• Houston is the only musical artist ever to chart 7 consecutive U.S. #1 hits.
• As a young woman she was much sought as a model, but singing was always her first love.
• In the last few years of her life, her career accomplishments were overshadowed by her personal problems and substance abuse issues. She died in February 2012 from a combination of drowning, the effects of heart disease and cocaine use.

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Download a free copy of the Last Will and Testament of Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957).

• Wilhelm Reich was an Austrian born psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, known as one of the most radical figures in the history of psychiatry.
• Reich worked with Sigmund Freud in the 1920s and was a respected analyst for much of his life, focusing on character structure rather than on individual neurotic symptoms. He believed that neurosis is rooted in the physical, sexual, economic, and social conditions of the patient, and promoted adolescent sexuality, the availability of contraceptives, abortion, and divorce, and the importance for women of economic independence.
• In 1947, Reich was living in the US when the Food and Drug Administration obtained an injunction to stop the sale of his 'orgone accumulators'. Charged with contempt for violating the injunction, he was sentenced to two years in prison, and in August 1956, several tons of his publications were burned by the FDA, arguably one of the worst examples of censorship in U.S. history.
• He died in jail of heart failure just over a year later, days before he was due to apply for parole.
  
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Download a free copy of the Will of William McKinley (1843-1901), the 25th President of the United States.

• William McKinley Jr. was the last veteran of the American Civil War to be elected as president. He was the last president to serve in the 19th century and the first to serve in the 20th.
• McKinley's presidency came during a return to prosperity after the Panic of 1893, and he made gold the base of the currency. He oversaw the US victory over Spain in the Spanish-American War, and the capture of Cuba and the Philippines. His decision to annex the Philippines met with widespread opposition.
• McKinley's administration accepted Hawaii's request to join the US, with all of its residents becoming full American citizens.
• McKinley was assassinated in 1901 by an anarchist named Leon Czolgosz, and was succeeded by his vice president Theodore Roosevelt.

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Download a free copy of the Last Will and Testament of William Shakespeare (1564-1616).

• William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist. He is often referred to as England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard").
• Shakespeare's surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems.
• His plays have been translated into every major living language, and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

The foregoing biographical information on Shakespeare is quoted from Wikipedia.