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

Jul 9, 2022 · 6:33 AM UTC

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What may be more interesting is that a common understanding of the time was that in a time of chaos a young man makes his mark.
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They were so much older then, we're younger than that now.
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Ben Franklin was 70. I guess that didn't fit with your point, whatever it was.
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Wow. Line that up with current powers that be...yikes. Lotsa old white guys running the place.
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Fucking hell, who knew?
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The lack of pre-frontal cortex here says it all.
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this is actually fascinating, I figured they were all 50 year old men
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This is so funny because a lot of these guys were just fucking around as infantry in the army in 1776, like it would be at least a decade before most of them were in politics
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