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Thomas Paine (feb 9, 1737 – jun 8, 1809)

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Born Thomas Pain
February 9, 1737
Thetford, Norfolk, Great Britain
Died June 8, 1809 (aged 72)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Spouse(s) Mary Lambert (m. 1759), Elizabeth Ollive (m. 1771)
Era Age of Enlightenment
School Enlightenment, liberalism, republicanism
Main interests
Politics, ethics, religion
Influences[hide]
Jacobin, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, Religious Society of Friends, Montesquieu, Benjamin Franklin
Influenced[hide]
Thomas Jefferson, William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Edison, Jyotirao Phule, Moncure D. Conway, Bertrand Russell, Christopher Hitchens, Robert G. Ingersoll

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Paine

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feb 9, 1737
jun 8, 1809
~ 72 years