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The founders were young and so is America — really

Jim Taft
Last updated: July 4, 2025 1:18 pm
By Jim Taft 13 Min Read
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Although America’s 250th birthday is still one year away, there is a fun, unique, and mathematical fact about this year’s 249th birthday that will help illustrate just how young America is as a nation.

To do that, we can start with the age of President Thomas Jefferson on the day he died — significantly enough, on the day America was celebrating its 50th birthday: July 4, 1826. Jefferson was 83.

Just three 83-year-olds living back-to-back-to-back takes you to the year our nation was founded.

As an interesting aside, our third president was not the only commander in chief whose life was historically tied to America’s birthday. President John Adams also died within five hours of Jefferson on July 4, 1826. Five years later, on July 4, 1831, our fifth president and founding father James Monroe also passed away.

Not to be too maudlin, one president was actually born on the Fourth of July. In 1872, Calvin Coolidge came into the world and would grow up to become America’s 30th president.

RELATED: Yes, Ken Burns, the founding fathers believed in God — and His ‘divine Providence’

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So what does Jefferson’s age of 83 have to do with this year’s national birthday celebration? Well, if you find an 83-year-old person living in America and go all the way back to the year he was born, you would find yourself in 1942. Now, in 1942, find a person who was born 83 years in the past, back to 1859. Finally, find a person born 83 years before that, and you arrive at … 1776!

Just three 83-year-olds living back-to-back-to-back takes you to the year our nation was founded.

And while we’re pondering this age business, it’s also fun to look at the relative youth of those who signed the Declaration of Independence, keeping in mind that 56 delegates representing the 13 original colonies actually put their very “lives, fortunes, and sacred honor” on the line when they signed their John Hancock on the document (and, yes, one of them was indeed John Hancock).

Also, with present-day controversy in mind, it is worth noting that none of the representatives signed using an auto-quill.

  

The average age of the document’s signers was 44 years, which happened to be George Washington’s age at the time. And Washington’s nemesis across the pond, the other George, King George III of England? He was 38.

The oldest signer of the Declaration was (no surprise) Benjamin Franklin, age 70.

Finally, by now you have probably done the math to figure out the age of Thomas Jefferson — the document’s chief author — when he signed: 33.

Now, enjoy the celebrations and get ready for the biggest one of all, next year’s 250th!

Editor’s note: A version of this article appeared originally at American Thinker.



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