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Signers of the Declaration of Independence

Short biographies on each of the 56 Declaration signers


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Delaware
George Read |  Caesar Rodney |  Thomas McKean | 

Pennsylvania
George Clymer | Benjamin Franklin | Robert Morris | John Morton |
Benjamin Rush | George Ross | James Smith | James Wilson | George Taylor |

Massachusetts
John Adams |  Samuel Adams |  John Hancock |  Robert Treat Paine | 

New Hampshire
Josiah Bartlett |  William Whipple |  Matthew Thornton | 

Rhode Island
Stephen Hopkins |  William Ellery | 

New York   
Lewis Morris |  Philip Livingston |  Francis Lewis |  William Floyd | 

Georgia   
Button Gwinnett |  Lyman Hall |  George Walton | 

Virginia   
Richard Henry Lee | Francis Lightfoot Lee | Carter Braxton | Benjamin Harrison |
Thomas Jefferson | George Wythe | Thomas Nelson, Jr. |

North Carolina   
William Hooper | John Penn |

South Carolina   
Edward Rutledge |  Arthur Middleton |  Thomas Lynch, Jr. |  Thomas Heyward, Jr. | 

New Jersey
Abraham Clark |  John Hart |  Francis Hopkinson |  Richard Stockton |  John Witherspoon | 

Connecticut
Samuel Huntington |  Roger Sherman |  William Williams |  Oliver Wolcott | 

Maryland   
Charles Carroll |  Samuel Chase |  Thomas Stone |  William Paca | 



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