Fascinating. Ages of Founding Fathers in 1776: James Monroe 18 Aaron Burr 20 John Marshall 20 Alexander Hamilton 21 James Madison 25 Benjamin Rush 30 John Jay 30 Thomas Jefferson 33 Thomas Paine 39

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Life expectancy in those days was 40's. 20 was middle age.
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Life expectancy was 35 or so. Most people didn’t spend their entire 20s trying to fry their brains and waste their assets. Different time. We have it good now. But we waste it.
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Today, on the liberal side, people this age can’t define a woman and make up their pronouns. #devolution
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A partial list to give ignorant people fodder to produce a narrative. The average age of the signers was 44. Not uncommon for the era.
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People who don’t understand life expectancy this is your cue!
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Average life expectancy was 38.
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I'm always blown away every time I see the ages of historical people. For some reason Lee Harvey Oswald always seemed much older than he was 🤷 George Washington seemed like he was perpetually wise and elderly. Now that I'm 43 I realize everything was decided by children 😂
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Lifespan was really short then. Lucky if you hit 50
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If you compare them to the sitting president, they are about the same age, combined.
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