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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 | Elbridge Gerry

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 | Joseph Hewes

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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