Revolutionary Hero Nathan Hale on This Day in History

 

This Day in History: American Patriot, soldier and spy for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, Nathan Hale, was executed on this day in 1776. He was only 21 years old. 

Many patriots at the time, including some of the Founding Fathers, were quite young.

The Marquis de Lafayette was commissioned an officer at age 13. He went to the New World seeking to fight in the American Revolution. He was made a major general at age 19.

All Things Liberty compiled a list of the ages of key people during the American Revolution (a period spanning from 1765–1783) when the Declaration of Independence was signed. I have included all the names of those 39 and younger:

Andrew Jackson, 9 (this is correct)

(Major) Thomas Young, 12

Deborah Sampson, 15

James Armistead, 15

Joseph Plumb Martin, 15

Peter Salem, 16

Peggy Shippen, 16 (Benedict Arnold wife) 

Marquis de Lafayette, 18

James Monroe, 18

Henry Lee III, 20

Gilbert Stuart, 20

John Trumbull, 20

Aaron Burr, 20

John Marshall, 20

Nathan Hale, 21

Banastre Tarleton, 21

Alexander Hamilton, 21

Benjamin Tallmadge, 22

Robert Townsend, 22

George Rodgers Clark, 23

David Humphreys, 23

Gouveneur Morris, 24

Betsy Ross, 24

William Washington, 24

James Madison, 25

Henry Knox, 25

John Andre, 26

Thomas Lynch, Jr., 26

Edward Rutledge, 26

Abraham Woodhull, 26

Isaiah Thomas, 27

George Walton, 27

John Paul Jones, 28

Bernardo de Galvez, 29

Thomas Heyward, Jr., 29

Robert R. Livingston, 29

John Jay, 30

Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 30

Benjamin Rush, 30

Abigail Adams, 31

John Barry, 31

Elbridge Gerry, 31

Casimir Pulaski, 31

Anthony Wayne, 31

Joseph Brant, 33

Nathanael Greene, 33

Thomas Jefferson, 33

Thomas Stone, 33

William Hooper, 34

Arthur Middleton, 34

James Wilson, 34

Benedict Arnold, 35

Samuel Chase, 35

Thomas Knowlton, 35

William Paca, 35

John Penn, 35

Hercules Mulligan, 36

Andrew Pickens, 36

Haym Solomon, 36

John Sullivan, 36

George Clymer, 37

Charles Cornwallis, 37

Thomas Nelson, Jr., 37

Ethan Allen, 38

Charles Carroll, 38

King George III, 38

Francis Hopkinson, 38

Carter Braxton, 39

George Clinton, 39

John Hancock, 39

Daniel Morgan, 39

Thomas Paine, 39

The average age of the signers of the Declaration of Independence was 44, more than a dozen of them were 35 or younger. The average age of the US Senate in 2021 was 64.

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