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Thomas Paine (born Thomas Pain, 9 February 1737 N.S. (29 January 1736 O.S.] – 8 June 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 he inspired the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain.
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