10 Tales From the Relationships Of Our Founding Fathers

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Despite the morals expressed by the Founding Fathers in the writings left for posterity the majority of them were a randy bunch. Mistresses, dalliances, and illegitimate births followed in the wake of many. We tend to dehumanize the Founders, equating them with the marble statues erected in their memory, remembering them as bewigged expounders of high moral character, serious, sober, and sanctimonious. Nothing could be further from the truth. All were subject to the same foibles as those faced by people everywhere. Franklin’s writings for example, and those about him written by others demonstrate a character untroubled by the rumors and gossip over his behavior.

Some of the Founders were indeed sober and steady men who maintained a fealty towards their wives despite long separations and stressful times. Others found the need to take solace in the brothels of Philadelphia while working in that city. Others maintained mistresses carefully concealed from the eyes of their fellow delegates. The sex lives of some of the Founders can only be speculated about because of their letters and diaries being destroyed following their deaths. Washington’s letters to his wife Martha, for example, were consigned to flames by her when he died in 1799.

Here are some tales of the sex lives of the Founders of the nation.