# Which Founding Father are you most like? **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-founding-father-are-you-most-like/596538 **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **Created:** [September 16, 2011, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-founding-father-are-you-most-like/596538 "2011-09-16T17:49:52Z") **Posts on this page:** 20 **Page:** 3
### Author: ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder) #### Post date: [September 17, 2011, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-founding-father-are-you-most-like/596538/41 "2011-09-17T01:13:37Z")
Roger Sherman. I’m ashamed to admit, I’d never heard of him before this. Then again, I’m not much of a student of the Founding Fathers. ---
### Author: ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler) #### Post date: [September 17, 2011, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-founding-father-are-you-most-like/596538/42 "2011-09-17T01:23:31Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > :: Nods :: > > 'Sup? Chillin’. Watching a criminal procedural set in Vienna (German-language TV offers a bunch of these online) and about to start knitting. ---
### Author: ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees) #### Post date: [September 17, 2011, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-founding-father-are-you-most-like/596538/43 "2011-09-17T01:40:19Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Roger Sherman. > I’m ashamed to admit, I’d never heard of him before this. Then again, I’m not much of a student of the Founding Fathers. Same here on every account. ---
### Author: ![Bibliothecarius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@Bibliothecarius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bibliothecarius) #### Post date: [September 17, 2011, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-founding-father-are-you-most-like/596538/44 "2011-09-17T02:30:41Z")
Madison. ---
### Author: ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa) #### Post date: [September 17, 2011, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-founding-father-are-you-most-like/596538/45 "2011-09-17T02:38:00Z")
George Mason. Didn’t I go to the NCAA Final Four a few years ago. Whooppee! ---
### Author: ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally) #### Post date: [September 17, 2011, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-founding-father-are-you-most-like/596538/46 "2011-09-17T02:43:12Z")
> [@standingwave](#): > > I would have preferred [Paine](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Thomas_Paine_rev1.jpg/445px-Thomas_Paine_rev1.jpg) but apparently he wasn’t an option. I don’t think he is considered a Founding Father, which I think is shenanigans because he did.more than most to bring about independence. ---
### Author: ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister) #### Post date: [September 17, 2011, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-founding-father-are-you-most-like/596538/47 "2011-09-17T02:48:33Z")
> [@Tapiotar](#): > > Another Madison. It’s the reading and the preference for research that does it, I think. Yet another Madison, and this theory would certainly explain it. ---
### Author: ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton) #### Post date: [September 17, 2011, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-founding-father-are-you-most-like/596538/48 "2011-09-17T03:38:34Z")
Another George Mason. Apparently, I really \*\*am \*\*a libertarian, because every single time I take any “What sort of _\_ are you?” quizzes, that’s what it tells me. ---
### Author: ![Sodalite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@Sodalite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sodalite) #### Post date: [September 17, 2011, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-founding-father-are-you-most-like/596538/49 "2011-09-17T03:47:06Z")
I’m a Madison. ---
### Author: ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever) #### Post date: [September 17, 2011, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-founding-father-are-you-most-like/596538/50 "2011-09-17T03:54:14Z")
Ben Franklin, but I was shooting for Elbridge Gerry, the father of Gerrymandering. ---
### Author: ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke) #### Post date: [September 17, 2011, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-founding-father-are-you-most-like/596538/51 "2011-09-17T03:58:38Z")
I’m Madison, and so’s my wife. ---
### Author: ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist) #### Post date: [September 17, 2011, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-founding-father-are-you-most-like/596538/52 "2011-09-17T04:01:45Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > Another Madison checking in. There seem to be quite a lot of us. 🙂 Add another. 😛 ---
### Author: ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar) #### Post date: [September 17, 2011, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-founding-father-are-you-most-like/596538/53 "2011-09-17T04:17:23Z")
James Wilson. Some of it matches up pretty well. For instance, from the[link](http://www.constitutioncenter.org/ncc_edu_Pennsylvania.aspx#Wilson) provided: > [@](#): > > Fearing imprisonment, he moved to New Jersey. That’s the only reason I’d move to New Jersey. ---
### Author: ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi) #### Post date: [September 17, 2011, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-founding-father-are-you-most-like/596538/54 "2011-09-17T04:54:53Z")
Madison. I wanted to be Franklin, but I knew I wouldn’t be. ---
### Author: ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45) #### Post date: [September 17, 2011, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-founding-father-are-you-most-like/596538/55 "2011-09-17T08:28:43Z")
I was hoping for Franklin or Jefferson, but got Washington instead. I’m unlikely to be the father of anything, let alone an entire country. ---
### Author: ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT) #### Post date: [September 17, 2011, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-founding-father-are-you-most-like/596538/56 "2011-09-17T12:36:45Z")
Washington: Self-controlled, dignified, and even handed. Bwahahahahahah! I don’t think I’ve laughed that much in my life! ---
### Author: ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl) #### Post date: [September 17, 2011, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-founding-father-are-you-most-like/596538/57 "2011-09-17T14:16:29Z")
Also James Madison but it’s not really that surprising that there are so many here on the Dope. ---
### Author: ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin) #### Post date: [September 17, 2011, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-founding-father-are-you-most-like/596538/58 "2011-09-17T16:40:38Z")
Someone had to do it: John Hancock Not big on the slave-master-style rape, or any kind, actually, so I’ll stick with Adams. Since I smoke a pipe, and like to pace back and forth whilst smoking, people really do ask me to sit down and try to open up a window. Also an Ezra Pound fan, so that cements it. The reference, for those of you playing along at home is from _1776_. I only like Lubitsch musicals, but I make an exception for that one. ---
### Author: ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave) #### Post date: [September 17, 2011, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-founding-father-are-you-most-like/596538/59 "2011-09-17T18:51:37Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > I don’t think he is considered a Founding Father, which I think is shenanigans because he did.more than most to bring about independence. The lost [founder](http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Democracy_America/TPaine_FoundingFather.html). ---
### Author: ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth) #### Post date: [September 17, 2011, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-founding-father-are-you-most-like/596538/60 "2011-09-17T19:22:52Z")
I got Ben Franklin; apparently I’m a manwhore. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-founding-father-are-you-most-like/596538.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-founding-father-are-you-most-like/596538.md?page=4)