Paine, Thomas
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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PAINE, THOMAS 1737 1809, Anglo...agitation for higher salaries. Paine emigrated to America in 1774...enormously successful pamphlet Common Sense (Jan., 1776), in which...independence. In Dec., 1776, Paine wrote the first of a series...