Thomas Paine

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Western Philosophy 18th-century philosophy
Name	Thomas Paine
Birth	January 29, 1737 Thetford, Norfolk, Great Britain
Death	June 8, 1809 (aged 72) New York, NY, U.S.
School/tradition	Enlightenment, Radicalism, Classical liberalism, Republicanism
Main interests	Ethics, Politics
Influences	Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, Religious Society of Friends, Montesquieu
Influenced	Thomas Jefferson, William Godwin, Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Edison, Moncure D. Conway, Bertrand Russell, Christopher Hitchens,Robert G. Ingersoll.

Thomas Paine (January 29, 1737 – June 8, 1809) was an English pamphleteer, revolutionary, radical, inventor, and intellectual. He lived and worked in Britain until he was 37, when he emigrated to the British American colonies during American Revolution. His main contribution was the powerful, widely-read pamphlet Common Sense (1776), advocating colonial America's independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain, and of The American Crisis (1776–1783), a pro-revolutionary pamphlet series.

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