FOUR IMPORTANT FIGURES among the Founding Fathers of America James Madison(1751-1836) 4th president, outlived all other found ing fathers, political sensibi lity and power of isual izing a democratic central government based on the ieas of philosophers and politicians of Europe. (He also helped in founding of University of Virginia) Alexander Hamilton(1755-1804) Governmental mechanism for managing the national economy($100 bill bearing his portrait and signature ) he served as the first financial Minister of the States, being credited for his prophetic vision of US as a global power Thomas Jefferson(1743-1826) 3rd president capturing the hearts of American people emotionally for his belief in the people, the individual ability of human kind to realize virtuous ideals. What is more, he penned the Declaration of Independence, and glorious figure in diplomatic arts (helped the found ing of University of Virginia) John Jay(1745-1829) First chief justice of America Jay Treaty helped avert war with Britain Benjamin Franklin(1706-1790) worked for the draft of Declaration of Independence among other contributions in science politics, and education(helped to found the University of Pennsylvania George Washington(1732-1799) Ist president John Adams(1735-1826)FOUR IMPORTANT FIGURES among the Founding Fathers of America James Madison (1751~1836) 4 th president, outlived all other founding fathers, political sensibility and power of visualizing a democratic central government based on the ideas of philosophers and politicians of Europe. (He also helped in founding of University of Virginia) Alexander Hamilton (1755~1804) Governmental mechanism for managing the national economy ($100 bill bearing his portrait and signature); he served as the first financial Minister of the States, being credited for his prophetic vision of US as a global power. Thomas Jefferson (1743~1826) 3 rd president capturing the hearts of American people emotionally for his belief in the people, the individual ability of human kind to realize virtuous ideals. What is more, he penned the Declaration of Independence, and glorious figure in diplomatic arts. (helped the founding of University of Virginia) John Jay (1745~1829) First chief justice of America Jay Treaty helped avert war with Britain. Benjamin Franklin (1706~1790) worked for the draft of Declaration of Independence among other contributions in science politics, and education (helped to found the University of Pennsylvania) George Washington (1732~1799) 1 st president John Adams (1735~1826) 2 nd president