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Paine

[peyn]
–noun
1. Albert Big⋅e⋅low [big-uh-loh] , 1861–1937, U.S. author and editor.
2. Robert Treat [treet] , 1731–1814, U.S. jurist and statesman.
3. Thomas, 1737–1809, U.S. patriot and writer on government and religion, born in England.
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Paine   (pān)   
American Revolutionary leader and jurist. A signer of the Declaration of Independence, he later served as a justice of the Massachusetts supreme court (1790-1804).
Paine, Thomas 1737-1809.  
British-born American writer and Revolutionary leader who wrote the pamphlet Common Sense (1776) arguing for American independence from Britain. In England he published The Rights of Man (1791-1792), a defense of the French Revolution.
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