Nine of the Lesser-Known Founding Fathers

These men helped create the United States but are now footnotes compared to some of their fellows.

Nick Howard
Lessons from History
9 min readApr 23, 2024

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Specific names likely come to mind when we think of the United States’ Founding Fathers. There are Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, George Washington, Ben Franklin, James Madison, and John Hancock, to name a few. Each of these men…

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Nick Howard
Lessons from History

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