https://www.snopes.com/articles/466491/ages-founding-fathers-july-4-1776/
The signers of the Declaration of Independence. Lots of young 'uns in there.
Adams, John MA 40
Adams, Samuel 53
Bartlett, Josiah 46
Braxton, Carter 39
Carroll, Charles 38
Chase, Samuel 35
Clark, Abraham 50
Clymer, George 37
Ellery, William 48
Floyd, William 41
Franklin, Benjamin 70
Gerry, Elbridge 32
Gwinnett, Button 41
Hall, Lyman 52
Hancock, John 40
Harrison, Benjamin 50
Hart, John 65
Hewes, Joseph 46
Heyward Jr., Thomas 30
Hooper, William 34
Hopkins, Stephen 69
Hopkinson, Francis 38
Huntington, Samuel 45
Jefferson, Thomas 33
Lee, Francis Lightfoot 41
Lee, Richard Henry 44
Lewis, Francis 63
Livingston, Philip 60
Lynch Jr., Thomas 26
McKean, Thomas 42
Middleton, Arthur 34
Morris, Lewis 50
Morris, Robert 42
Morton, John 52
Nelson Jr., Thomas 37
Paca, William 35
Paine, Robert Treat 45
Penn, John 36
Read, George 42
Rodney, Caesar. 47
Ross, George 46
Rush, Benjamin 30
Rutledge, Edward 26
Sherman, Roger 55
Smith, James 57
Stockton, Richard 45
Stone, Thomas MD 33
Taylor, George PA 60
Thornton, Matthew 62
Walton, George 35
Whipple, William 46
Williams, William 45
Wilson, James 33
Witherspoon, John 53
Wolcott, Oliver 49
Wythe, George VA 50
So… on average late 30s/early 40s? So it’s actually a Lemmy post, rather than a Reddit post?
I’d be pretty interesting to have access to age demographics for social media. I assume Reddit leans younger than Lemmy, but I’m in my early 20s and so are a few of my friends, and we use Lemmy a lot more.
Lemmy feels a lot less mature than Reddit, for what that’s worth.
“1791 was the year it happened. I was 24, younger than you are now, but times were different then. I was a man at that age: the master of a large plantation just south of New Orleans.”
Still complaining Louis?
Could a reply be any more perfect?!
Louis: Hot as balls, forever young, immortal, never grow sick, never die, best friend is a literal rock star, has to eat a poodle now and again.
“Woe is me!”
I’m in the woods and swamps a lot. Always think of this line:
“Then on a diet of the blood of snakes, toads, and all the putrid life of the Mississippi…”
The Constitution came into effect nearly 13 years after the Declaration of Independence was signed.
Yeah. The Declaration of Independence was a Reddit post. The Constitution is the result of a bunch of 30 year old men arguing over what should and shouldn’t be in there, and one guy hopelessly transcribing their argument and hoping they’ll sign it because he’ll be buggered if he’ll copy all that out again.
(“The Vice President shall be the leader of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.” Yes, that’s how having an odd number of voters works…)
It is good to know though that white Internet libertarians predate the Internet by about 2 centuries.
