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American Generations
Term Period
Awakening Generation 1701–1723
First Great Awakening 1730–1740
Liberty Generation
Republican Generation
Compromise Generation 		1724–1741
1742–1766
1767–1791
Second Great Awakening 1790–1840
Transcendentalist Generation
Transcendental Generation
Abolitionist Generation
Gilded Generation
Progressive Generation 		1789–1819
1792–1821
1819–1842
1822–1842
1843–1859
Third Great Awakening aka Missionary 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 aka American High 1929–1956
Silent Generation
Baby boomer>Baby Boomers
Beat Generation
Generation Jones 		1925–1945
1946–1964
1948–1962
1954–1965
Consciousness Revolution 1964–1984
Baby Busters
Generation X
MTV Generation
1958–1968
1961–1981
1975–1985
Culture Wars 1984–2005
Boomerang Generation
Generation Y
Internet generation
New Silent Generation 		1981–1986
1977–2003
1986–1999
2001–

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.

Members

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

The Republicans had three U.S. Presidents: 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.

Prominent non-U.S. peers

Sample cultural endowments

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