Roger Williams
English Baptist theologian and author (1603–1683)
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Founded Rhode Island on radical ideas about religious freedom and church-state separation. This 17th-century minister got booted from Massachusetts for his views, then actually followed through on them.
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Roger Williams was an English-born New England minister, theologian, author, and founder of the Providence Plantations, which became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and later the State of Rhode Island. He was a staunch advocate for religious liberty, separation of church and state, and fair dealings with the Native Americans.
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