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Who were the Founding Fathers of the United States?
U.S. Constitution Portrait painting by Gilbert Stuart of John Adams, shown seated and facing forward, wearing a dark coat and white cravat against a plain brown background. Samuel Adams Benjamin Franklin Alexander Hamilton Patrick Henry Digitally restored vector painting of President Thomas Jefferson, shown from the chest up wearing a dark coat and white cravat, with a neutral background. Portrait of President James Madison, painted by Asher B. Durand in 1833, showing Madison in formal attire with a white cravat against a dark background.
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Who were the Founding Fathers of the United States?
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John Trumbull: Declaration of Independence
Declaration of Independence, oil on canvas by John Trumbull, 1818; in the...
Architect of the Capitol
U.S. Constitution
The signing of the U.S. Constitution by 39 members of the Constitutional Convention...
Architect of the Capitol
U.S. Pres. John Adams
John Adams, oil on canvas by Gilbert Stuart, c. 1800–15; in the National Gallery...
Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; gift of Mrs. Robert Homans, 1954.7.1
Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams.
© North Wind Picture Archives
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin, oil on canvas by Joseph Siffred Duplessis, c. 1785; in the collection...
© National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation (object no. NPG.87.43)
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton, chromolithograph.
The Knapp Co./Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-ppmsca-17523)
Patrick Henry
Patrick Henry.
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (NPG.77.291)
Thomas Jefferson
U.S. Pres. Thomas Jefferson.
© John Parrot—Stocktrek Images/Getty Images
Asher B. Durand: portrait of James Madison
James Madison, oil painting by Asher B. Durand, 1833; in the collection of The New-York...
© Geoffrey Clements/Corbis—VCG/Getty Images
John Marshall
Chief Justice of the United States John Marshall.
© North Wind Picture Archives
George Mason
George Mason, detail of an oil painting by L. Guillaume after a portrait by J. Hesselius;...
Courtesy of the Virginia Historical Society
George Washington
George Washington, oil on canvas by Gilbert Stuart, c. 1803–05; in the National Gallery...
Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Gift of Jean McGinley Draper, 1954.9.2
Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams, oil on canvas by Gilbert Stuart, 1800–15; in the National Gallery...
Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Gift of Mrs. Robert Homans, 1954.7.2
Dolley Madison
Dolley Madison oil on canvas by Bass Otis, c. 1817; in the collection of the New...
The Picture Art Collection/Alamy
U.S. Constitution
Original copy of the U.S. Constitution, housed in the National Archives in Washington,...
National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.: Thomas Jefferson Memorial
Thomas Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D.C.
Geoff Tompkinson/GTImage.com (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
A group of Kaw meets with a representative of the U.S. government in the 1800s.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-USZ62-43748)
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