Steve Garvey?
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Most of you have known for a very long time about my audiobooks and have probably listened to one or a few of them. I think this is a worthy direction to expand into.
James Madison, the father of the Constitution
George Washington
I’d say the most popular these days is that hip-hop brutha Hamilton.
Patrick Henry?
Ping for your input.
George Mason
James Madison
Patrick Henry
Samuel Adams
Roger Sherman
Charles Carroll
Thomas Paine
for the reason of quality I won’t do it. Perhaps someone needs to convince me otherwise. >>
Do a series of short stories that are historical fiction.
And you will becme highly popular.
I like Wilson myself: James Wilson (Founding Father)
Or any of the Anti-Federalists below, who were very prescient about how the country would turn out in the years to come:
Patrick Henry, Virginia
Samuel Adams, Massachusetts
Joshua Atherton, New Hampshire
George Mason, Virginia
Richard Henry Lee, Virginia
Robert Yates, New York
James Monroe, Virginia
Amos Singletary, Massachusetts
John Hancock, Massachusetts
Mercy Otis Warren, Massachusetts
James Warren, Massachusetts
George Clinton, New York
Melancton Smith, New York
James Winthrop, Massachusetts
Luther Martin, Maryland
Samuel Bryan, Pennsylvania
Button Gwinnet.
Robert Gates, the “other” Revolutionary general
George Clinton, whose name was honored until another set of Clintons became famous
My founding mother is Abigail Rice. She worked at the hospital her husband Zacharia Rice built at valley forge. their home was nearby.
It is related that after the battle of Brandywine, General Washington retreated across the Chester Valley to the Yellow Springs, passing the Rice home. Halting with his staff officers he asked for some water to drink. Mrs. Rice quickly sent one of her daughters to the spring for a bucket of water, and mixing into it some sugar, rum, and spice, made “flip,” a then common drink, and presented the bucket to General Washington, addressing his as “my lord.” Washington immediately replied, “We have no titles here, we are all brothers, my heart is with my poor men who lie in the battle field at Brandywine.” This was one of Washington’s darkest moments.
Likely Washington had on his mind Franklin’s famous witicism. “If we don’t all hang together, we shall hang seperately.”
Her descendents are fond of saying“if you have shook my hand, then you have shook the hand, of the hand, of the hand, of the hand, (etc) that shook General Washington’s hand.”
Abigail Rice had 21 Children.
A marker at her grave states.
Some people have children.
Some people have none.
Abigail had 21.
Or (little known American founding father:
Keith Richards
John Adams, but it has already been written.
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?).
Father of the Constitution, Madison.