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Weird coincidence you bring this up. I just found this on reddit: TIL That although we picture the Founding Fathers as old men, many were quite young. By July
by tieTYT 12y ago
Weird coincidence you bring this up. I just found this on reddit: TIL That although we picture the Founding Fathers as old men, many were quite young. By July 4th, 1776, Aaron Burr was 20, Alexander Hamilton, 21; James Madison, 25; John Jay, 29; and Thomas Jefferson, 33.
- codexjourneys 12y agoThat is super-interesting; but I bet being 25 in 1776 was more like being 40 in 2015. Not too many people were still students in their 20s (or even their teens) back then.
- maceo 12y agoThomas Jefferson is the only founder you list who ought to be associated with the year 1776. The others actually came to prominence in the 1780's. That said, they were still young. To add a few more, Marx was 29 when he wrote the Communist Manifesto and Fidel Castro was 32 he successfully led the Cuban revolution.