{"id":21163,"date":"2026-06-25T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=21163"},"modified":"2026-06-09T12:10:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T19:10:32","slug":"the-founders-francis-lightfoot-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=21163","title":{"rendered":"The Founders: Francis Lightfoot Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Francis Lightfoot Lee<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I will never willingly pay a farthing to any TAX laid upon this COUNTRY, in any unconstitutional manner.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Francis Lightfoot Lee was a scion of the Lee family of the Virginia tidelands. Yes Robert E Lee of Civil War fame was of the same family.Early on he opposed the Stamp Act and was a willing delegate to the Continental Congress. He voted yes for the Declaration and signed it with his full name. Lightfoot was the surname of the best man at his fathers wedding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

I have stopped linking these very short biographies to Wikipedia since it is a monotony and you can do your own search if you want too, which you don’t the amazing discovery of this exercise is that the founders needed to be a fairly large group but maybe as a result they are mostly unknown and unheralded. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Francis Lightfoot Lee “I will never willingly pay a farthing to any TAX laid upon this COUNTRY, in any unconstitutional manner.” Francis Lightfoot Lee was a scion of the Lee family of the Virginia tidelands. Yes Robert E Lee of Civil War fame was of the same family.Early on he opposed the Stamp Act and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1543],"tags":[1559,1541,1619,311],"class_list":["post-21163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-founding-fathers","tag-founders","tag-founding-fathers","tag-francis-lightfoot-lee","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-09-at-11.50.38-AM.png?fit=1002%2C1338&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-5vl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21165,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21163\/revisions\/21165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}