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SMITHSONIAN Secretary G. Wayne Clough writes in his column " Jefferson's Bible" that the president's views on religion were "complex." It is true that Jefferson did not like to express his religious beliefs publicly, but I think it is proper to identify him as a Unitarian. In 1825, a year and a half before his death, Jefferson wrote to smallpox-vaccination pioneer Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse: "The population of my …