And which Founding Father's name is to this day spoken most often, from sea to shining sea?
Duh!
Which shows to go you, if you want to be remembered forever, don't found a country, make a really good beer.
Posted on 08/22/2022 6:07:14 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
Or (little known American founding father:
Keith Richards
sorry, Horatio Gates
John Adams, but it has already been written.
Button Gwinnett! What, Gouverneur Morris isn’t good enough for you?
And which Founding Father's name is to this day spoken most often, from sea to shining sea?
Duh!
Which shows to go you, if you want to be remembered forever, don't found a country, make a really good beer.
I know U.S. history pretty well so I could answer your question, except for one thing. What do you mean by “popular”? Are you looking for a name that might be most prominent (aside from the ones you excluded) on the lips of the hoi polloi? Or do you mean a name of a man whose influence ought to be given more recognition?
Who OUGHT to be popular are those who actually DID go for broke and risk their families, their accumulated wealth, their future prospects of prosperity, and, yes, their own blood. They threw caution to the wind, gave their lives over to God, and shoved “all in”. Some of those Boston boys come to mind (what went wrong with that town, anyway?).
Lachlan McIntosh was a dick.
Father of the Constitution, Madison.
True, but he was a good shot. You have to give him that
Clearly Hamilton is the most popular now. That has a lot to do with his West Indian birth. His support for a larger federal government also has something to do with it. So does the fact that he wasn’t a plantation owner.
Benjamin Rush and Gouverneur Morris have also attracted attention in recent years. Not because they were “typical” Founders, but because they were not typical. Roger Sherman or Charles Carroll (the only Catholic) might be another possibility, but most of the “typical” founders have been as forgotten as Button Gwinnett, whose name is remembered only because his autograph is so rare.
Hamilton also served as a military officer and a brave one.
It doesn’t seem like Gwinnett was a paragon of virtue, either...
Going away, Patrick Henry. No one else comes close.
After Washington, my equal favorites are Samuel and John Adam.
Rufus King was a “founding father” and the namesake for King County, Washington state’s largest and most populous county - that is until the virtue signalling progs usurped his name and renown and bestowed it upon the less deserving MLK.
School children from my time were taught this (but not much else) and encouraged to look him up in the library for “further study” - just as they should. Now, 60 years later I read the name and these are my recollections.
In junior high I had a history teacher named Mr. Feldman. He quietly struggled with gout (an affliction that I would share in my later years) and routinely wore slippers instead of shoes to class which presented a sort of comic appearance. He taught me that most of us cannot and will not remember every single fact we are exposed to in school. But if we can learn how to research what we seek all knowledge will be revealed to us.
There are a lot of interesting Revolutionary War characters, like Francis Marion, Ethan Allen, Daniel Morgan, George Rogers Clark, Mad Anthony Wayne. But if you want to discover somebody little-known and fascinating, it won't be somebody who is already popular.
If you want someone who was incredibly perceptive, about which little has been written, try Mercy Otis Warren, James Otis’s sister, who resisted the Constitution claiming the Bill of Rights wasn’t strong enough.
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Well, blood is blood, so, Samuel Chase.
Or if you want more popular, Patrick Henry.
Andrew Jackson was a young Officer back then and he attack and killed the guards stationed in the house near the main base, the early morning of the surprise Christmas attack after crossing of the Delaware. The German outpost.
Jackson was sort of Washington’s go to guy to get things done.
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