The Founding Fathers Poll

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Which of these fine upstanding citizens had the most positive impact on modern-day America?

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Benjamin Franklin	8
Thomas Jefferson	5
John Adams	3
Alexander Hamilton	2
Thomas Paine	2
Nathanial Mayweather	2
James Madison	1
George Washington	1

― kenan, Friday, 15 June 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

where is JOHN HANCOCK?

― gabbneb, Friday, 15 June 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

Nathanial Mayweather

Good job.

― Mr. Que, Friday, 15 June 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.gasolinealleyantiques.com/images/Records%20Page/record-libertytree.JPG

― ghost rider, Friday, 15 June 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

Paine's not really considered a Founding Father, is he...? He didn't sign the Declaration or the Constitution, was not an elected representative of anybody etc.

anyway if we're including ny old influential colonial-era personage and not just signatories, my vote definitely goes to my hero Roger Williams

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 15 June 2007 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

Glaring omission from this poll: Sam Adams.

― kenan, Friday, 15 June 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

i misread this as fondling fathers.

― stevienixed, Friday, 15 June 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

same thing

― kenan, Friday, 15 June 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

Foundling fathers: like every Disney father figure, it's only uncles taking in their foundling nephews.

― Abbott, Friday, 15 June 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

johnny deformed

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Friday, 15 June 2007 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

totally between Washington, Jefferson, and Hamilton. Hamilton wins because he was the smartest.

― ryan, Friday, 15 June 2007 17:39 (eighteen years ago)

Madison v Franklin

― gabbneb, Friday, 15 June 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

anyone who doesn't vote either paine or cabin boy is dead to me

― ghost rider, Friday, 15 June 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

FRANKLIN.

― elmo argonaut, Friday, 15 June 2007 17:41 (eighteen years ago)

I've got more affection for Adams after his selected writings were published a few years ago, and he pwns Jefferson in their correspondence. Still a shitty president though, despite being temperamentally immune to war fever.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 15 June 2007 17:42 (eighteen years ago)

I have near-religious adoration of Ben Franklin, I even have a painting of Ben Franklin With A Third Eye hanging over my bed.

― elmo argonaut, Friday, 15 June 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

franklin otm

THIRD EYEBROW

http://www.promotega.org/fld00034/Benjamin%20Franklin.gif

― brownie, Friday, 15 June 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

Hamilton scares me a little.

In terms of the long run consequences, I'm going with Madison.

― Michael White, Friday, 15 June 2007 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― ILX System, Monday, 2 July 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

We've perfected the poll timeframe since this thred

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Monday, 2 July 2007 23:52 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― ILX System, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

six months pass...

REVIVE!

http://www.austinchronicle.com/binary/6706141e/CabinBoy.jpg

― kenan, Monday, 7 January 2008 17:33 (eighteen years ago)

"let's just say I've finally shed my feminine side, like a snake sheds its fur."

― kenan, Monday, 7 January 2008 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

hamilton was a genius but a vile man.

jefferson and madison were the best.

― J.D., Tuesday, 8 January 2008 04:37 (eighteen years ago)

Washington underrated here

― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 05:07 (eighteen years ago)

for real.

― tipsy mothra, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 05:27 (eighteen years ago)

Jefferson, Washington, and Madison should be top three.

― o. nate, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

list of nominees is pretty arbitrary and nonsensical

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 22:33 (eighteen years ago)

Washington got screwed, he was the best of all of them

― Bill Magill, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 23:09 (eighteen years ago)

no way

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 23:12 (eighteen years ago)

fucking slaveowners

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 23:13 (eighteen years ago)

http://z.about.com/d/philadelphia/1/0/q/a/artmuseum26.jpg

― amateurist, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 23:16 (eighteen years ago)

four years pass...

Buncha commies!

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/founding-fathers-quotes-you-probably.html

― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:06 (thirteen years ago)

still can't believe two ppl voted for fuckin' hamilton.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:11 (thirteen years ago)

Washington got screwed, he was the best of all of them

― Bill Magill, Tuesday, January 8, 2008 6:09 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Still stand by this 4 years later.

― One Way Ticket on the 1277 Express (Bill Magill), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:15 (thirteen years ago)

still can't believe two ppl voted for fuckin' hamilton.

Adams and Jefferson would've agreed.

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:16 (thirteen years ago)

Hamilton is classic for his writing and letters until the end of the first Washington administration -- then goes mad.

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:17 (thirteen years ago)

two years pass...

Guess who has his own off-Broadway musical?

http://www.publictheater.org/en/Public-Theater-Season/Hamilton/

― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 20:34 (eleven years ago)

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