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Thomas Paine biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Thomas Paine

Author Name:

Thomas Paine

Born As:

Thomas Paine

Other Names:

Born:

29 Jan 1737

Died:

8 Jun 1809




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Pamphleteer, Atheist, Revolutionary, Libertarian, Ethicist and Political Philosopher                          
Selected Works:

Common Sense - First published anonymously on January 10, 1776, during the American Revolution.

The American Crisis - Pamphlets published from 1776 to 1783 during the American Revolution.

Rights of Man - 1791

The Age of Reason - Published in three parts in 1793-4, 1795, and 1807

Agrarian Justice - 1797

American Revolution

French Revolution                          
Mother Frances Cocke, an Anglican
Father Joseph Pain or Paine, a Quaker
Wife Mary Lambert, one child, both died at birth
Second wife Elizabeth Ollive                          
Advocated colonial America's independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain - 1776

One of the founding fathers of the United States.

Agrarian Justice pamphlet  - 1797, advocated the use of an estate tax to fund a universal old-age and disability pension, as well as a fixed sum to be paid to all citizens on reaching maturity. This is similar to the later philosophy of Georgism.                          
He opposed slavery and was amongst the earliest proponents of universal, free public education, a guaranteed minimum income, and many other ideas considered radical at the time.
There is a plaque in Paris at the street where he lived from 1797 to 1802, which reads "Thomas Paine. Englishman by birth. American by choice. French by decree. Citizen of the World.

No Christian church would receive Thomas Paine for burial, so he was buried under a walnut tree on his farm. In 1819, the English agrarian radical journalist William Cobbett dug up his bones and transported them back to England, with plans for English democrats to give Paine a heroic reburial on his native soil, but this never came to pass. The bones were still among Cobbett's effects when he died over twenty years later, but were later lost. 

Thomas Paine was ridiculed and ostrazied due to his disdain of Christianity.