Founding Fathers of the USA

John Adams

This founding father created the United States Navy.

John Adams

This founding father was the second president of the United States, from 1797 to 1801.

John Adams

This founding father was the only US President to belong to the Federalist Party.

Samuel Adams

This founding father started the Sons of Liberty.

Samuel Adams

This founding father, a second cousin of President John Adams, helped formulate resistance to the Stamp Act and played an important role in organizing the Boston Tea Party.

Benjamin Franklin

This founding father was the oldest delegate of the second Continental Congress and was adored by everyone.

Benjamin Franklin

This founding father published a Poor Richards's Almanack in 1733, which included weather reports, recipes, predictions, etc.

Benjamin Franklin

This founding father set up a hospital, fire department, and the University of Pennsylvania.

Patrick Henry

Famous for his speech to the Second Virginia Convention in 1775, when he declared, "Give me liberty or give me death."

Patrick Henry

This founding father proposed seven resolutions against the Stamp Act, the first four resolutions were adopted and passed by the House of Burgesses.

Thomas Jefferson

After serving as a diplomat in France and then vice president to John Adams, he became the third president of the United States.

Thomas Jefferson

This founding father wrote the Declaration of Independence.

Thomas Jefferson

This founding father made the Louisiana Purchase from Napoleon, doubling the size of the United States.

Alexander Hamilton

This founding father served as the first US Secretary of the Treasury.

Alexander Hamilton

This founding father was an author of the Federalist Papers.

James Madison

This founding father is known as the Father of the Constitution; also the drafter of the Bill of Rights.

James Madison

This founding father signed the Treaty of Ghent to end the War of 1812.

James Monroe

The Fifth President of the United States (1817-1825).

James Monroe

He is best known for establishing the foreign policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas beginning in 1823.

James Monroe

This founding father was the first president to live in the building we now refer to as the White House. "After it burned and was rebuilt."

Thomas Paine

Wrote a pamphlet, Common Sense, supporting the opinion that America should be a free and independent entity from Great Britain; this was the first pamphlet to advocate American independence.

Thomas Paine

This founding father was an English-American writer and political pamphleteer whose writings were important influences on the American Revolution.

George Washington

He was given the position of Commander-In-Chief when the Revolution started in 1775.

George Washington

This founding father was the President of the Constitutional Convention and was permitted to be the first to sign this document.

George Washington

He was the first President of the United States under the Constitution.