"Hancock, Henry, Morris, Marshall, Rush, and Paine). Founding Fathers of the United States The Founding Fathers of the United States were a group of philosophers, politicians, and writers who led the American Revolution against the Kingdom of Great Britain. Most were descendants of colonists settled in the Thirteen Colonies in North America. Historian Richard B. Morris in 1973 identified the following seven figures as the key Founding Fathers: Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington. Adams, Jefferson, and Franklin were members of the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence."
"Frederick Swartwout Cozzens Frederick Swartwout Cozzens (1818–1869) was an American humorist, who sometimes wrote under the name Richard Haywarde. Cozzens was born in New York City on 5 March 1818. In early life, he became a wine merchant. Beginning in 1854, he was the proprietor and editor of ""Cozzens' Wine Press"", a magazine on the culture of wine. In its issues, which he ran until 1861, he particularly promoted American wines. Cozzens had previously contributed humorous poems and articles to magazines, and in 1853 he issued his first volume, ""Prismatics"", under the pen name ""Richard Haywarde"". Then came ""The Sparrowgrass"
"Ingersoll Lockwood Ingersoll Lockwood (2 August 1841 – 30 September 1918) was an American lawyer and writer. As a writer, he is particularly known today for his ""Baron Trump"" children's novels. However, he wrote other children's novels, as well as the dystopian novel, ""1900: or; The Last President"", a play, and several non-fiction works. He wrote some of his non-fiction under the pseudonym Irwin Longman. Lockwood was born in Ossining, New York, the son of Munson Ingersoll and Sarah Lewis (""née"" Smith) Lockwood. He was the second of their six children. Munson Lockwood, like his two older brothers, Ralph and"
"in season 7, episode 4 of South Park, ""I'm a Little Bit Country"". John Dickinson John Dickinson (November 8, 1732 – February 14, 1808), a Founding Father of the United States, was a solicitor and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Wilmington, Delaware known as the ""Penman of the Revolution"" for his twelve ""Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania"", published individually in 1767 and 1768. As a member of the First Continental Congress, where he was a signee to the Continental Association, Dickinson drafted most of the 1774 Petition to the King, and then, as a member of the Second Continental"
"sale of native wines, and retired from Yonkers to Rahway, New Jersey. His other works include ""Poems"" (1867) and a ""Memorial of Fitz-Greene Halleck"" (1868). He was married with Susan (Meyers) Cozzens and was the father of the marine artist Fred S. Cozzens (1846-1928). Died 23 December 1869 in Brooklyn, New York. Frederick Swartwout Cozzens Frederick Swartwout Cozzens (1818–1869) was an American humorist, who sometimes wrote under the name Richard Haywarde. Cozzens was born in New York City on 5 March 1818. In early life, he became a wine merchant. Beginning in 1854, he was the proprietor and editor of"
"George Goodman George Jerome Waldo Goodman (August 10, 1930 – January 3, 2014) was an American author and economics broadcast commentator, best known by his pseudonym Adam Smith (which was assigned by Clay Felker at ""New York"" magazine in order to keep his published articles about Wall Street anonymous). He also wrote fiction under the name ""George Goodman"". Goodman was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Alexander Mark Goodman and Viona Cremer Goodman. He attended Harvard College, graduating ""magna cum laude"", and served as an editor of ""The Harvard Crimson"". Goodman won a Rhodes Scholarship to Brasenose College,"
"John Dickinson John Dickinson (November 8, 1732 – February 14, 1808), a Founding Father of the United States, was a solicitor and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Wilmington, Delaware known as the ""Penman of the Revolution"" for his twelve ""Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania"", published individually in 1767 and 1768. As a member of the First Continental Congress, where he was a signee to the Continental Association, Dickinson drafted most of the 1774 Petition to the King, and then, as a member of the Second Continental Congress, wrote the 1775 Olive Branch Petition. When these two attempts to negotiate"
"buried at Kensal Green Cemetery, Ward's remains were removed to the United States on May 20, 1868. He is buried at Elm Vale Cemetery in Waterford, Maine. Charles Farrar Browne Charles Farrar Browne (April 26, 1834 – March 6, 1867) was an American humor writer, better known under his ""nom de plume"", Artemus Ward. He is considered to be America's first stand-up comedian. His birth name was Brown but he added the ""e"" after he became famous. Browne was born in Waterford, Maine. He began his career as a compositor and occasional contributor to the daily and weekly journals. In"
"memorial has not yet been built. The University of East Anglia's Norwich Business School is housed in the Thomas Paine Study Centre on its Norwich campus in Paine's home county of Norfolk. The Cookes House is reputed to have been his home during the Second Continental Congress at York, Pennsylvania. Works Thomas Paine Thomas Paine (born Thomas Pain) – June 8, 1809) was an English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist and revolutionary. One of the Founding Fathers of the United States, he authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution and inspired the patriots"
"Jonathan Falconbridge Kelly Jonathan Falconbridge Kelley (August 14, 1817 - July 21, 1855?) was an American journalist and humorist. He published under a number of pseudonyms, including ""Falconbridge"", ""Jack Humphries"", ""O.K."", ""Cerro Gordo"", and ""J.F.K."" Kelley was born in Philadelphia in 1817, and later moved west. He started to publish humorous pieces as ""Falconbridge"" in ""Spirit of the Times"" newspaper, and which proved to be popular, in 1844. A posthumous collection of his work containing 111 of his sketches, ""The Humors of Falconbridge"", was published in November 1856. He also wrote a biography of comedic actor Dan Marble in 1851,"
"Thomas Paine Thomas Paine (born Thomas Pain) – June 8, 1809) was an English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist and revolutionary. One of the Founding Fathers of the United States, he authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution and inspired the patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Britain. His ideas reflected Enlightenment-era ideals of transnational human rights. Saul K. Padover described him as ""a corsetmaker by trade, a journalist by profession, and a propagandist by inclination"". Born in Thetford in the English county of Norfolk, Paine migrated to the British American colonies"
"cause the plaintiff was nonsuited, based the proof that was given of his having himself grossly libelled every respectable character in the kingdom, from the sovereign down to the lowest of his subjects. Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon, who tried the case, commended Gifford. Williams emigrated to America shortly afterwards, and edited a New York newspaper called ""The Federalist"". He died a poor man of typhus fever in Brooklyn, on 23 November 1818. John Williams (satirist) John Williams (1761–1818) was an English poet, satirist, journalist and miscellaneous writer, best known by the pseudonym of Anthony Pasquin. He was born in"
"John Williams (satirist) John Williams (1761–1818) was an English poet, satirist, journalist and miscellaneous writer, best known by the pseudonym of Anthony Pasquin. He was born in London on 28 April 1761, and was sent in 1771 to Merchant Taylors' School. There he was beaten for an epigram on Mr. Knox, the third master. At the age of seventeen he was placed with a painter, but he gave up art to become an author and translator. When he was about eighteen he wrote a defence of David Garrick against William Kenrick, earning Garrick's friendship. About two years later he went"
"Charles Farrar Browne Charles Farrar Browne (April 26, 1834 – March 6, 1867) was an American humor writer, better known under his ""nom de plume"", Artemus Ward. He is considered to be America's first stand-up comedian. His birth name was Brown but he added the ""e"" after he became famous. Browne was born in Waterford, Maine. He began his career as a compositor and occasional contributor to the daily and weekly journals. In 1858, he published in ""The Plain Dealer"" (Cleveland, Ohio) the first of the ""Artemus Ward"" series, which, in a collected form, achieved great popularity in both America"
"Stoo Hample Stuart E. Hample (January 6, 1926 – September 19, 2010), also known as Stoo Hample, was an American children's book author, performer, playwright and cartoonist who sometimes used the pseudonyms Joe Marthen and Turner Brown, Jr. He is best known for the books ""Children's Letters to God"" and ""The Silly Book"", and the comic strip ""Inside Woody Allen"". He is the father of Zack Hample. Hample began drawing before kindergarten. At the age of 17, he enlisted in the United States Navy and served for two years in the Submarine Service during World War II. He attended Williams"
"His best known production is a ""Comic History of the United States"", published in 1870 under the pseudonym Harry Scratchley. (12°, pp. 549.) He died in Englewood, from pneumonia, on April 30, 1891, in his 73rd year. He had suffered from paralysis for many years before his death. He married, on October 29, 1863, Emmelme Zimmerman, of Toronto, who survived him with four children. A son graduated Yale in 1890. John D. Sherwood John D. Sherwood (November 24, 1818-April 30, 1891) was an American author. Sherwood, son of Thomas and Ruth (DuBois) Sherwood, was born in Fishkill, New York, on"
"fifty popular and often-reprinted novels between 1846 and 1882, most of which used their commonplace domestic settings to communicate an ecumenical Protestant or strongly anti-Catholic message. Ashted-born George Mogridge started writing for children on religious and moral issues in 1827 after a varied early life that included periods working as a japanner in Birmingham's metal trades and living as a tramp in France. He eventually wrote 226 successful and widely marketed books, including stories, collections, verse and plays; anonymously and under more than 20 pseudonyms including Old Humphrey, Ephraim Holding, Old Father Thames, Peter Parley, Grandfather Gregory, Amos Armfield, Grandmamma"
"George Washington Harris George Washington Harris (March 20, 1814 – December 11, 1869) was an American humorist best known for his character, ""Sut Lovingood,"" an Appalachian backwoods reveler fond of telling tall tales. Harris was among the seminal writers of Southern humor, and has been called ""the most original and gifted of the antebellum humorists."" His work influenced authors such as Mark Twain, William Faulkner, and Flannery O'Connor. Harris moved to Knoxville, Tennessee, as a child, where he worked variously as a silversmith, riverboat captain, and farmer. His earliest works were political satires published in the ""Knoxville Argus"" around 1840,"
"Gotham, Nottinghamshire. Irving and his collaborators published the periodical using a wide variety of pseudonyms, including Will Wizard, Launcelot Langstaff, Pindar Cockloft, and Mustapha Rub-a-Dub Keli Khan. Irving and Paulding discontinued ""Salmagundi"" in January 1808, following a disagreement with publisher David Longworth over profits. Salmagundi (periodical) Salmagundi; or The Whim-whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq. & Others, commonly referred to as Salmagundi, was a 19th-century satirical periodical created and written by American writer Washington Irving, his oldest brother, William, and James Kirke Paulding. The collaborators produced twenty issues at irregular intervals between January 24, 1807 and January 15, 1808."
"by a member of the Constitution Club at Oxford (1719), addressed to James, first Earl Stanhope, and printed anonymously, but doubtless by Amhurst. He had satirized Oxford morals in ""Strepkon's Revenge; a Satire on the Oxford Toasts"" (1718), and he attacked from time to time the administration of the university and its principal members. An old Oxford custom permitted, on public occasions, some person to deliver from the rostrum a humorous, satirical speech, full of university scandal. This orator was known as ""Terræ filius"". In 1721 Amhurst produced a series of bi-weekly satirical papers under this name, which ran for"
"Salmagundi (periodical) Salmagundi; or The Whim-whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq. & Others, commonly referred to as Salmagundi, was a 19th-century satirical periodical created and written by American writer Washington Irving, his oldest brother, William, and James Kirke Paulding. The collaborators produced twenty issues at irregular intervals between January 24, 1807 and January 15, 1808. ""Salmagundi"" lampooned New York City culture and politics in a manner much like today's ""Mad"" magazine. It was in the November 11, 1807, issue that Irving first attached the name ""Gotham"" to New York City, based on the alleged stupidity of the people of"
"George Carlin George Denis Patrick Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, author, and social critic. Carlin was noted for his black comedy and reflections on politics, the English language, psychology, religion, and various taboo subjects. He and his ""seven dirty words"" comedy routine were central to the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case ""F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation"", in which a 5–4 decision affirmed the government's power to regulate indecent material on the public airwaves. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential stand-up comics; one newspaper called Carlin ""the"
"ratification of the United States Constitution, Virginia politician John Dawson, at the state's ratifying convention in 1788, spoke of the ""atrocious murder"" of Pertinax by the Praetorian Guard as an example of the danger of establishing a standing army. Pertinax was the pseudonym of the French journalist André Géraud (1882–1974). In """"Romanitas"""", a fictional alternate history novel by Sophia McDougall, Pertinax's reign is the point of divergence. In the history as established by the novel, the plot against Pertinax was thwarted, and Pertinax introduced a series of reforms that would consolidate the Roman Empire to such a degree that it"
"George Mogridge (Old Humphrey) George Mogridge (""Old Humphrey"") (17 February 1787 – 2 November 1854) was a prolific 19th century writer, poet and author of children's books and religious tracts. He is chiefly known by his pseudonym of 'Old Humphrey', under which name he published 46 works, but also used the pen-names 'Jeremy Jaunt', 'Ephraim Holding', 'Peter Parley' and 'Old Father Thames'. He wrote approximately 200 published works, many of which are still in publication today, and at the time of his death it was estimated that over 15 million copies of his writings were in circulation. George Mogridge was"
"mentioned at his web site: Published under the pseudonym ""George Carpenter"": Kurt Saxon Kurt Saxon (born Don Sisco on March 6, 1932) is a survivalist and the author of ""The Poor Man's James Bond"", a series of books on improvised weapons and munitions. During the 1960s, Saxon drifted into and out of several political organizations and new religious movements, including the American Nazi Party, the John Birch Society, the Minutemen, the Church of Scientology, and the Church of Satan. In August 1970, he appeared before a Senate Investigations subcommittee holding hearings on bombings and terrorism. According to newspaper accounts, he"
"sense of Twain. Renowned polymath Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), as a newspaper editor and printer, became one of America's first humorists, most famously for ""Poor Richard's Almanack"" published under the pen name ""Richard Saunders"". Ring Lardner (1885–1933) was a sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings about sports, marriage, and the theatre. Robert Benchley (1889–1945), best known for his work as a newspaper columnist and film actor, began writing humorously for ""The Harvard Lampoon"" while attending Harvard University, and for many years wrote essays and articles for ""Vanity Fair"" and ""The New Yorker"". H. L. Menken"
"including the famous Lon Chaney film, ""The Penalty"" in 1920. Morris established himself as an important landowner in northern New York, where the Town of Gouverneur and Village of Gouverneur in St. Lawrence County are named after him. In 1943, a United States liberty ship SS ""Gouverneur Morris"" was launched. She was scrapped in 1974. Gouverneur Morris Gouverneur Morris I (30 January 1752 – 6 November 1816) was an American statesman, a Founding Father of the United States, and a signatory to the Articles of Confederation and the United States Constitution. He wrote the Preamble to the United States Constitution"
"in both major parties, and particularly the administrations of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson and Rockefeller Republicans who supported civil rights legislation. Often Touchstone employed editorial ridicule and vociferous personal attacks against those whom he politically opposed. However, Touchstone was an expert researcher of truth and facts and never lost a legal challenge regarding any of his articles. Touchstone often hosted citizens from all over the United States and even various British dignitaries eager for his analysis of events. Touchstone was known for his dry humor and play upon words as well as his political cartoons. He once printed"
"Derrick Dodd Frank Harrison Gassaway was a noted American humorist and poet who often wrote under the pseudonym Derrick Dodd. Dodd is perhaps most well known for his travel letters ""Summer Saunterings"" published under this pseudonym. Although little is known of his personal life before he became a prominent writer in California, save that he was of a Virginian family, Dodd apparently married a southern belle from Washington D.C. named Elizabeth Paschal and fathered a son, Francis, in 1874 or 1875. Dodd's grandson was the writer Brian Howard. In 1880, Dodd left Washington D.C. and moved to Oakland, California where"
"on March 4, 1866 at Bethany, West Virginia. His widow died more than three decades later, on June 28, 1897. His nephew Archibald Campbell (1833-1899) had already become an important abolitionist and Republican party leader, and as editor of the ""Wheeling Daily Intelligencer"" helped found what became the state of West Virginia. While in his early 20s, Campbell wrote several moral essays under the pseudonym ""Clarinda."" and published them in a local paper. In 1820, his debate with the Presbyterian John Walker was published, reminding him of the efficacy of writing and publishing. He bought a press and built a"
"Abner Cole Abner Cole (August 17, 1783 – July 13, 1835), also known by his pen name Obadiah Dogberry, Esq., was a 19th-century American newspaper editor. He was one of the earliest critics of the spiritual claims of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, having commented on the ""Golden Bible"" before it was even published as the Book of Mormon. Cole's publishing philosophy was one of freethought, which flourished in periodicals in the northeastern United States between 1825 and 1850. Cole was born in Chesterfield, Massachusetts, the son of Southworth and Rucksbe (Bryant) Cole. In 1797,"
"and 100 films. His works of fiction included some 500 novels and short stories. Hubbard ""published nearly 600 books, stories, and articles during his lifetime."" He sold over 23 million copies of fiction and 27 million copies of nonfiction. L. Ron Hubbard Lafayette Ronald Hubbard ( ; March 13, 1911 – January 24, 1986), often referred to by his initials LRH, was an American author and the founder of the Church of Scientology. After establishing a career as a writer of science fiction and fantasy stories, in 1950 he published a ""branch of self-help psychology"" called Dianetics. Hubbard subsequently developed"
"Dr. Seuss Theodor Seuss Geisel (; March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991) was an American children's author, political cartoonist, poet, animator, screenwriter, filmmaker, and artist, best known for his work writing and illustrating more than 60 books under the pen name Doctor Seuss (abbreviated Dr. Seuss) (). His work includes many of the most popular children's books of all time, selling over 600 million copies and being translated into more than 20 languages by the time of his death. Geisel adopted the name ""Dr. Seuss"" as an undergraduate at Dartmouth College and as a graduate student at the University"