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Most Important Founding Father You Probably Don't Know
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Most Important Founding Father You Probably Don't Know

Dr. Benjamin Rush, Psychiatrist, Ardent Abolitionist

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May 17, 2022
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Most Important Founding Father You Probably Don't Know
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In American iconography, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and more recently, Alexander Hamilton (thanks to playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda) seem to tower above other founders. But we should understand that it was an extraordinarily fluid time in which many people made a great deal of difference. The American revolution was a bottom-up, not …

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