founding father

noun

often capitals a person who founds or establishes an important institution, esp a member of the US Constitutional Convention (1787)

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“The founding fathers did not live and die for this moment,” Newsom said.

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“I’ve always been someone who supports giving power back to the Congress the way our founding fathers originally designed,” Valadao said.

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Perhaps they will invoke the advice of one founding father, Benjamin Franklin, who wrote that "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

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Benjamin Franklin, the founding father and inventor, first proposed daylight saving in 1784.

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Azuka said she was "completely unaware" of his links to slavery, despite him being "a founding father of a slave colony".

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