Who was Thomas Paine?
During his time, Thomas Paine was given a lot of names and titles that directly explains who he was and what he contributed. Born on February 9, 1737 in Thetford, within the English county of Norfolk, Thomas Paine is the son of a Quaker, named Joseph Pain and an Anglican, named Frances nee Cocke.
Paine achieved his formal education in Thetford Grammar School from 1744 to 1749, during a time where education wasn't compulsory or required. At the young age of 13, Paine became an apprentice to his father, who was a corset maker and later went on in serving his country by enlisting as a privateer. In 1759, he retired as a privateer and went back to Britain. There, he continued on mastering the art of corset making and later established a shop of his own at Sandwich, Kent. In Sept. 27, 1759, Thomas Paine was married to Mary Lambert. Soon after their wedding, Paine's business collapsed followed by Mary's pregnancy. Mary then went into labor, after their move to Margate, during which she and the baby died. On June 1761, Paine went back to Thetford and worked as a supernumerary executive.
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Thomas Paine achieved various titles from the people who knew him during his time. He was an intellectual, inventor, radical, revolutionary, and an English author. Paine is also considered as one of the Founding Fathers of the US. He has been termed as a corset maker by skill, a journalist by expertise, and a propagandist by aptness. He was also considered as the voice of the common man. Among the various works of Thomas Paine, one of his most influential and fundamental contributions was his dynamic and vastly read pamphlet titled Common Sense, which he wrote during 1776. Common Sense bolstered colonial American freedom against the domination of the Kingdom of Great Britain. Following his famous work, The American Crisis, which he made during 1776 to 1783, served as another influential and powerful pro-revolution pamphlet collection. The American Crisis was deemed so influential that John Adams stated, "Without the pen of the author of 'Common Sense,' the sword of Washington would have been raised in vain". Other significant works he published and gave inspiration to people was the Rights of Man, which was caused by a re-sparking of his passion for revolution, only this time in France, and the Age of Reason, which he wrote knowing that he would later be condemned and executed.