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To: Looking for Diogenes
I contend that none of our founding fathers were Jews, so this 'Judeo-' thing is meaningless.

Well, Alexander Hamilton's stepfather was Jewish. Another was financier Haym Solomon, who provided significant financial support to the Continental Congress and the war effort. South Carolina's Francis Salvador, the first identified Jew to be elected to an American colonial legislature, was the only Jew to serve in a revolutionary colonial congress and the first Jew to die for the cause of American liberty.

284 posted on 02/06/2002 7:02:21 AM PST by malakhi
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To: angelo
Thanks for the input regarding colonial Jews. Though the Jews you mention were undoubtedly patriots, they did not fill the positions of power that commonly define the term 'Founding Father.'
294 posted on 02/06/2002 8:10:15 AM PST by Looking for Diogenes
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