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Share Flipboard Email. By Mary Bellis Mary Bellis. Mary Bellis covered inventions and inventors for ThoughtCo for 18 years. She is known for her independent films and documentaries, including one about Alexander Graham Bell. Learn about our Editorial Process. Featured Video. In , Washington was overwhelmingly elected the first president of the United States. Rising to prominence as an aide-de-camp to Washington during the Revolutionary War, he became an impassioned supporter of a strong central government.
Washington then tapped him to serve as the first U. In the beginning stages of the American Revolution, Franklin was appointed to the five-member committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence. He then traveled to France, where he secured French assistance for the war effort and helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris , the official end to the conflict. Just prior to his death, Franklin served as a sort of elder statesman at the Constitutional Convention.
A distinguished Massachusetts lawyer, John Adams became a relatively early proponent of the revolutionary cause. Just like Franklin, he served on the committee that wrote the Declaration of Independence, journeyed overseas to secure French military aid and helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris. He chaired other key committees as well and even found time to draft the Massachusetts Constitution which is still in use.
After about 10 years of diplomatic service abroad, Adams returned home in and subsequently became vice president under Washington. In a striking coincidence, Adams and his friend-turned-rival-turned-friend Thomas Jefferson both died on the same day , July 4, , the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. The second cousin of John Adams, Samuel Adams was a political firebrand who drummed up immense opposition to British policies in Boston, a hotbed of the resistance.
Adams likely planned the Boston Tea Party , and in his attempted arrest helped spark the Battles of Lexington and Concord , the first skirmish of the Revolutionary War. Unlike many of the Founders, Adams was staunchly anti-slavery. He signed the Declaration of Independence and went on to serve as governor of Massachusetts. Well educated and prosperous, Thomas Jefferson was a Virginia lawyer and politician who came to believe the British Parliament held no authority over the 13 colonies.
As secretary of state under Washington, Jefferson clashed constantly with Hamilton over foreign policy and the role of government. The Founding Fathers refers to the individuals credited with achieving the independence of the United States of America. These seven men, from the original 13 colonies in the United States, worked to promote the American Revolution against British colonialism and are responsible for creating some of the most important documents in this country today, including the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution.
Each individual listed below also helped form the earliest government of the US. George Washington is best known as the first president of the newly independent nation. Prior to holding this position, however, he served in the military from to The following year, the voting population in Virginia elected him to join the Virginia House of Burgesses, where he first began speaking against the British colonial powers.
As commander-in-chief, Washington led the military to several victories that eventually won the war. This victory made him a popular figure throughout the colonies and he was elected as the first president, with a ballot of 69 electors to 0. James Madison played an important role in writing the United States Constitution and is often referred to as the Father of the Constitution. Prior to creating the majority of this important founding document, Madison served as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, the Virginia Convention, the Continental Congress, and the Council of the State of Virginia.
He is also responsible for forming the Constitutional Congress, which met from May to September of to negotiate the details of the final version of the US Constitution.
After authoring this document, he worked with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay to publish the Federalist Papers, which were used to persuade the 13 colonies to agree with the final version.
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