Lawyer, private practice (1767-1774)
Representative from Albemarle, Virginia House of Burgesses (1768-1775)
Representative from Virginia, Second Continental Congress (1775-1776)
Representative from Albemarle, Virginia House of Delegates (1776-1779)
Governor, State of Virginia (1779-1781)
Representative from Albemarle, Virginia House of Delegates (Dec. 1781)
Representative from Virginia, Confederation Congress (1783-1784)
Officer of the Confederation Congress in Europe (1784)
United States Minister plenipotentiary to France (1785-1789)
United States Secretary of State (1790-1794)
Vice President of the United States (1797-1801)
President of the United States of America (1801-1809)
Chair, Rockfish Gap Commission [on Education and the State of Virginia] (1818)
Founder and first rector of the University of Virginia (1819-1826)