Why is it that the "founders," you know...those guys who put together the United States' first governments (yea..remember...there were two) are portrayed as being pretty old... when in truth... they were not?
In 1776
James Madison was 25
Thomas Jefferson 33
If you look at portraits of them (granted most of their portraits come in the 1790s or after the Revolution)... they look a great deal older.
If you rely on the way they are portrayed in film...they all look well over mid-twenties and early thirties for sure.
What is that about?
Were they that weathered by life and stress in the Colonies that they just looked older or do we find comfort in portraying our leadership with more age and experience than they actually had?
Just found it odd...this is what I do when I read for class... I get stuck on the smallest and most insignificant thing.
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Interesting! I had no idea and had always assumed they were older.
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