Just learned about Fisher Ames:

> Ames was on the committee that inaugurated President Washington, he framed the final accepted wording in the First Amendment regarding freedom of religion in 1789 and fought many key legislative battles successfully for the Federalists in Congress.

> Ames died on July 4th, 1808, at the age of fifty; making him the first of three Founding Fathers who died on July 4th - along with Thomas Jefferson and John Adams - who both died in 1826.

Based