John Wilkes, politician and journalist. A real looker, this one.
John Wilkes was a Radical member of parliament, along with owning a newspaper condemning his enemies. He was dangerously witty, not the most attractive, but he often boasted he "only needed half an hour to talk away his face." He spoke often against the Tory Prime Minister of the time, Lord Bute, ending Whig dominance. He was often not a friend of the establishment, and wanted his voters to determine their own representatives. Due to the vehement hate he gathered from his enemies (and the rabidness of his supporters) Wilkes was prosecuted for libel (due to a pornographic poem), exiled to France, returned, was reelected as member of parliament, arrested and ejected, left prison to immediately rerun and win, and was ejected again. This cycle of election and ejection continued one or two more times before the parliament declared his opponent the winner. Wilkes refused to stay out of politics.
What if he looked elsewhere? John Wilkes's sister married a New English merchant, but he died after a year of marriage. If this man lived, and so John Wilkes has a brother-in-law and sister in, say, Boston. John Wilkes's last election was in 1770, being released from prison in February. In March, Wilkes's brother-in-law writes him about the Boston Massacre, a new event in the American Revolution that Wilkes always supported , stating the the Colonies need leadership that he can give. John Wilkes obliges, abandoning his home that betrayed him and entering a new world in rebellion. Where does he find his place? Do people respect him? Can his charisma not just talk away his face, but his nationality? Can he, at the end of the day, be known as a founding father?