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Born April 7, 1780 • Newport • Rhode Island
Died October 2, 1842 (aged 62) • Bennington • Vermont
Awards And Honors Hall of Fame (1900)
Movement / Style Transcendentalism
Subjects Of Study Transcendentalism • Unitarianism
Role In Transcendentalism

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