Which american writer most closely represents the ideals of the enlightenment?

The American Enlightenment was a philosophical movement that started in the 1700s and ended in the early 1800s.

During this period there were very famous personalities like Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, but one name stands in the world of literature, Thomas Paine, no other pamphlet writer was more famous than Thomas Paine, his Common Sense swept the nation into a fury against British rule.