Founding fathers (act. 1765–1836)

• Independence and the signers
• Founding and the framers
• Cultural significance of the founding fathers

References

See

• Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
• George Washington (1732–1799)
• John Adams (1735–1826)
• Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
• John Jay (1745–1829)
• James Madison (1751–1836)
• Alexander Hamilton (1757–1804)
• Signatories of the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America (1776)
• Mercy Otis Warren (1728–1814)
• John Dickinson (1732–1808)
• Samuel Adams (1722–1803)
• John Rutledge (1739–1800)
• Philip Livingston (1716–1778)
• Robert R. Livingston (1746–1813)
• Edward Rutledge (1749–1800)
• Roger Sherman (1721–1793)
• Richard Henry Lee (1733–1794)
• Alexander Martin (1739/40–1807)
• Edmund Randolph (1753–1813)
• Thomas Mifflin (1744–1800)
• Nathaniel Gorham (1738–1796)
• Robert Morris (1735–1806)
• George Read (1733–1798)
• James Wilson (1742–1798)
• George Wythe (1725/6–1806)
• Charles Pinckney (1757–1824)
• George Mason (1725–1792)
• William Livingston (1723–1790)
• William Paterson (1745–1806)
• Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1746–1825)
• Oliver Ellsworth (1745–1807)
• Gouverneur Morris (1752–1816)
• John Trumbull (1756–1843)
• John Hancock (1737–1793)
• Charles Thomson (1729–1824)