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To: William Tell 2
How many local founders can you keep track of?

Probably a lot if you're a Virginian, since three or four of them went on to become President. Add George Mason and Patrick Henry and you've got a pretty good score.

But if you're a Bostonian there's John Adams, Sam Adams, and John Hancock. Get down to James Otis or Robert Treat Paine and you won't have much company.

It's similar for New York. You've got Hamilton and Jay, and ... what ... were the rest of them all Tories?

For South Carolina how much further do you get beyond somebody Rutledge and some guy Pinckney?

And the same for Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. Ben Franklin is all over the place. He splits the town with William Penn from a century earlier.

Nobody cares about Thomas McKean or John Morton or George Ross.

18 posted on 07/09/2008 3:48:12 PM PDT by x
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To: x

The Virginians and the Mass guys just did better PR.

Like I said there is Franklin, Wilson, R. Morris, G. Morris, all of whom contributed greatly. They were not career government people like the VA and MA guys.


21 posted on 07/09/2008 5:31:42 PM PDT by William Tell 2
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