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His name might not have been the inspiration for America’s capital city, a state in the Pacific Northwest or countless locales across the nation, but Thomas Paine was a hugely influential figure in the formation of the United States.

Born in England in 1737, Paine moved to Philadelphia in the early 1770s and soon wrote the pamphlet,

According to the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association, Paine argued aga…