The Founding Fathers of the United States were the members of the American Constitutional Convention of 1787. someone who begins something such as a new way of thinking, or a new organization founding father of
The founding father of an institution, organization, or idea is the person who sets it up or who first develops it. = founder
a member of the Constitutional Convention that drafted the United States Constitution in 1787
the group of men including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin who helped to start the US as a country and to establish its government. They wrote the US's most important political documents, including the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and the Bill of Rights