Republican Generation

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Term	Period
Awakening Generation	1701–1723
First Great Awakening	1727–1746
Liberty Generation Republican Generation Compromise Generation	1724–1741 1742–1766 1767–1791
Second Great Awakening	1790–1844
Transcendentalist Generation Transcendental Generation Abolitionist Generation Gilded Generation Progressive Generation	1789–1819 1792–1821 1819–1842 1822–1842 1843–1859
Third Great Awakening	1886–1908
Missionary Generation Lost Generation Interbellum Generation G.I. Generation Greatest Generation	1860–1882 1883–1900 1900–1910 1900–1924 1911–1924
Jazz Age	1929–1956
Silent Generation Baby Boomers Beat Generation Generation Jones	1925–1945 1946–1964 1948–1962 1954–1962
Consciousness Revolution	1964–1984
Baby Busters Generation X MTV Generation	1958–1968 1963–1978 1975–1984
Culture Wars	1980s–present
Boomerang Generation Generation Y Internet Generation New Silent Generation	1977–1986 1979–1999 1988–1999 2000–2020

The Republican Generation is the name given to that generation of Americans born from 1742 to 1766 by William Strauss and Neil Howe in their book Generations. They grew up as the precious object of adult protection during the French and Indian Wars, an era of rising crime and social disorder. They came of age highly regarded for their secular optimism and spirit of cooperation. As young adults, they achieved glory as soldiers in the American Revolutionary War, brilliance as scientists, order as civic planners, and epic success as state-crafters. Trusted by elders and aware of their own role in history, they led the campaign to ratify the United States Constitution and filled all the early cabinet posts. In midlife, they built canals and acquired territories, while their orderly Federalist and rational Republican leaders made America a "workshop of liberty". As elders, they chafed at passionate youths bent on repudiating much of what they had built.

The Republicans' typical grandparents were of the Enlightenment Generation. Their parents were of the Awakening Generation and Liberty Generation. Their children were of the Compromise Generation and Transcendental Generation and their typical grandchildren were of the Gilded Generation.

Altogether, about 2.1 million Americans were born from 1742 to 1766. 17 percent were immigrants and 17 percent were slaves at any point in their lives.

[edit] Members

A list of sample Republicans includes the following, with birth and death dates as this generation is fully ancestral:

1742 Nathanael Greene (1786)
1742 Arthur Middleton (1787)
1742 William Hooper (1790)
1742 James Wilson (1798)
1743 Thomas Stone (1787)
1743 Thomas Jefferson (1826)
1744 Thomas Mifflin (1800)
1744 Elbridge Gerry (1814)
1744 Abigail Adams (1818)
1744 Pierce Butler (1822)
1745 William Paterson (1806)
1745 Benjamin Rush (1813)
1745 John Jay (1829)
1745 Richard Bassett (1815)
1746 Thomas Heyward, Jr. (1809)
1746 Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1825)
1747 John Paul Jones (U.S. Navy captain, not the same as John Paul Jones the Led Zeppelin bassist and keyboardist) (1791) (immigrant)
1747 Gunning Bedford, Jr. (1812)
1748 William Few (1828)
1749 Thomas Lynch, Jr. (c. 1779)
1749 William Blount (1800)
1749 Edward Rutledge (1800)
1749 Cyrus Griffin (1810)
1749 Jared Ingersoll (1822)
1750 Kunta Kinte (c. 1815) (immigrant)
1751 James Madison (1836)
1752 Jacob Broom (1810)
1752 Gouverneur Morris (1815)
1752 Timothy Dwight IV (1817]])
1753 James McHenry (1816)
1754 Abraham Baldwin (1807)
1754 Joel Barlow (1812)
1754 Pierre L'Enfant (1825) (immigrant)
1754 "Molly Pitcher" (1832)
1755 Nathan Hale (1776}
1755 Nicholas Gilman (1814)
1755 Rufus King (1827)
1755 John Marshall (1835)
1756 Aaron Burr (1836)
1757 Alexander Hamilton (1804) (immigrant)
1757 Charles Pinckney (1824)
1758 Richard Dobbs Spaight (1802)
1758 James Monroe (1831)
1758 Noah Webster (1843)
1760 Jonathan Dayton (1824)
1761 Albert Gallatin (1849) (immigrant)
1763 John Jacob Astor (1848) (immigrant)
1765 Robert Fulton (1815)
1765 Eli Whitney (1825)
1766 Sam Wilson (1854)

The Republicans had three U.S. Presidents:

1743 Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1809 (1826)
1751 James Madison, 1809-1817 (1836)
1758 James Monroe, 1817-1825 (1831)

They held a plurality in the House of Representatives from 1789 to 1813, a majority of the U.S. Senate from 1789 to 1813, and a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1791 to 1826. In addition, John Jay (1778-1779), Thomas Mifflin (1783-1784), and Cyrus Griffin (1788-1789) held the Presidency of the Continental Congress before the Constitution was ratified.