Thomas Paine (February 9 1737 [O.S. January 29 1736] – June 8 1809) was an English-American political activist author political theorist and revolutionary. As the author of two highly influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution he inspired the Patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Britain. His ideas reflected Enlightenment-era rhetoric of transnational human rights.
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birth date
1737-02-09
birth place
Norfolk, Thetford
BNF Id
11918444q
death date
1809-06-08
death place
New York City
era
Age of Enlightenment
individualised GND number
118591215
influenced
Abraham Lincoln, Bertrand Russell, Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Edison, Thomas Jefferson, Jyotirao Phule, Robert G. Ingersoll, Christopher Hitchens, Moncure D. Conway, William Godwin, Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud
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