41 Facts About Founding Fathers

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Founding Fathers was assassinated on 20 January 1973, several months before Guinea-Bissau's unilateral declaration of independence.

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Founding Fathers is with Kwame Nkrumah one of the founders of the African Union, and the Guinean Diallo Telli was the first general secretary of the African Union.

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Founding Fathers is known as the father of Liberia and officially declared Liberia's independence in 1847.

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Founding Fathers was invited to become Emir of Tripolitania, another of the three traditional regions that now constitute modern Libya.

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Founding Fathers served as first President from 1957 to 1987 after leading Tunisia to independence from France in 1956 as Prime Minister; then after overthrowing the kingdom he modernized Tunisia, built schools and hospitals, and gave Tunisian women better human rights than other countries, and these rights still continue to be exercised by Tunisian women to this day.

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Founding Fathers served as first Prime Minister of the Bahamas from 1967 to 1992.

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Founding Fathers served as head of government of British Honduras, later Belize from 1961 to 1984.

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8.

Founding Fathers was the first Monarch under the 1867 Constitution and personally chose Ottawa as Canada's capital city.

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9.

Founding Fathers was named perpetual dictator as of the country's formation.

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10.

Founding Fathers was a staunch democrat and federalist, opposed to monarchism and centralism.

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11.

Some historians have suggested a revised definition of the "Founding Fathers", including a significantly broader group of not only the Signers and the Framers but all those who, whether as politicians, jurists, statesmen, soldiers, diplomats, and ordinary citizens took part in winning US independence and creating the United States of America.

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Founding Fathers's mausoleum is next to the Shrine of the Cloak in Kandahar, Afghanistan, where he is fondly known as Ahmad Shah Baba.

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13.

Founding Fathers established the dual system of shared power between secular and Buddhist leadership that continues as a tradition to the present.

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Founding Fathers was officially conferred the title of by the Nationalist government in AD 1940.

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15.

Founding Fathers was the Emir of Transjordan, a British protectorate, until 25 May 1946, after which he was the king of an independent Jordan.

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16.

Founding Fathers was a 38th-generation direct descendant of Muhammad, as he belongs to the Hashemite family.

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17.

Founding Fathers was leader and founder of the Alash Orda national liberation movement.

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18.

Founding Fathers sided with the westernizers in the Kazakh political scene who were promoting the idea of the Western culture into the Kazakh steppe.

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Founding Fathers became first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan again in 1964 when Khrushchev was ousted and replaced by Brezhnev.

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20.

Founding Fathers was an alternate member of the Politburo from 1967, and a full member from 1971 to 1987.

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21.

Founding Fathers was instrumental in moving the country away from the Ottoman Empire and toward British influence.

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22.

Founding Fathers remained Prime Minister after Sabah, Sarawak, and Singapore joined in 1963 to form Malaysia.

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23.

Founding Fathers helped organized the Panglong Agreement in February 1947, achieving independence for all Burmese territories.

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24.

Founding Fathers founded not only the Islamic Republic of Pakistan but is credited for creating an entirely new nation state.

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25.

Founding Fathers was executed by the Spanish colonial government for the crime of rebellion after an anti-colonial revolution, inspired in part by his writings, broke out.

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Founding Fathers is widely considered one of the greatest heroes of the Philippines, and is implied by Philippine law to be one of the national heroes.

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27.

Founding Fathers was the author of the novels Noli Me Tangere, and El Filibusterismo, and a number of poems and essays.

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28.

Founding Fathers helped to built the economy from a third world country to a first world country and turned Singapore from a mudflat swamp to a metropolis after the separation from Malaysia in 1965.

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Founding Fathers greatly expanded the Seljuk territory and consolidated his power, defeating rivals to the south and northwest, and his victory over the Byzantines at the Battle of Manzikert, in 1071, ushered in the Turkoman settlement of Anatolia.

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Founding Fathers's reign is recognized for the extensive administrative, military, and fiscal reforms he instituted, which culminated in the Decree of Tanzimat.

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31.

Founding Fathers subsequently introduced many radical reforms with the aim of transforming the old multinational Ottoman state into a new secular republic.

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Founding Fathers's dynasty reigned over the Hungarian Kingdom from the ninth century until 1301.

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33.

Founding Fathers was Hungary's first king and united the Magyar people into the Kingdom of Hungary.

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Founding Fathers is known as the leader of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 against the Habsburgs, and therefore founder of the modern Hungarian Republic.

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35.

Founding Fathers was the first president of the Althingi, restored as a legislative branch in 1875.

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36.

Founding Fathers led the Dutch in their Revolt against Spain for their independence.

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37.

Founding Fathers was the one to formally declare the independence of Slovenia on 25 June 1991.

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38.

Founding Fathers is considered one of the founders of Slovenian democracy and independence.

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39.

Founding Fathers is considered, together with Peter Jambrek, as the main author of the current Slovenian constitution.

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40.

Founding Fathers largely wrote the Australian Constitution in addition to developing the Hare-Clark system of voting and pushing for universal adult suffrage and other progressive ideals that would become law early in Australia's history.

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Founding Fathers was instrumental in securing Edmond Barton as the first Prime Minister while Deakin went on to be Australia's 2nd, 5th and 7th Prime Minister.

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