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founding father
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- someone who founds or is instrumental in founding an institution, nation, etc.
- a participant in the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, esp. one who signed the document
See founding father in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- A member of the convention that drafted the U.S. Constitution in 1787.
- founding father A man who founds or establishes something.
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