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John Penn was born in 1741, in Virginia and died in 1788. As he grew up he became a lawyer ,and also a delegate for North Carolina. He was elected to the Continental Congress in 1775. Other important documents that he signed were the Declaration of the Independence and also the Article of Confederation.

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Abraham Clark was born on his father’s farm in New Jersey in 1725. Growing up, Clark was a farmer, surveyor, self-taught lawyer, and a politician. He was a member of the New Jersey state legislature and was a delegate for the colony during the Second Continental Congress, where he signed the Declaration of Independence. Abraham Clark also served in Congress during the Revolutionary War. Clark was opposed to the ratifaction of the Constitution because it lacked a Bill of Rights. Until his death, Clark served as a representative to the Second and Third United States Congress under the Constitution.

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Samuel Huntington was born in Windham, Connecticut in 1731. As a child he wanted to learn more. He taught himself law using borrowed books and ended up becoming a lawyer. Even though he never earned a degree he received honorary degrees from colleges like Princeton and Harvard. He signed the Declaration of Independence and the articles of confederation. He was president of the Continental Congress from 1779 to 1881, chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, and Governor of Connecticut.

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John Witherspoon was born in scotland 1723 and moved to New Jersey in 1768. He became the president of New Jersey college which is now prinston university. He was elected into the Continental Congress 1776 and stayed until 1782. He focused on military and foreign work, but once the war ended he focused on rebuilding the college of New Jersey because the British destroyed part of it. When he sighed the Declaration of Independence he was the president of the college of New Jersey.

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Born in 1726 in New York, Lewis Morris grew up in an environment of privilege and wealth. He graduated from Yale in 1746 and later joined the NY Assembly where he opposed the Stamp Act and the Quartering Act. He was sent to the 2nd Continental Congress in 1776 and after the Revolutionary War lost much of his wealth and property. Later in life he served on the Board of Regents for the University of NY and in 1788 supported Alexander Hamilton's ratification of the US Constitution. He died at the age of 71 in 1798.

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John Adams was born in Massachusetts in 1735 and intended Harvard and studied law 1758. Adams was one of the early people who converted to the cause of American independence and wrote books in defense of American rights. Adams was a delegate to the first and second continental congress and served in the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence, which he recommends its cause to Congress. In the revolutionary war he served as a diplomat and helped negotiation of the treaty of Paris. In 1789, John adams became the first Vice President, and in 1797 became president. John Adams died on July 4th, 1826, peacefully.

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William Whipple was born on January 14, 1730, in Kittery, Maine. He was a ship's captain and merchant, and studied in college to become a judge. Whipple was elected to represent Portsmouth, New Hampshire in the Provincial Congress, and was later elected to the Continental Congress and signed the Declaration of Independence. He fought in the battles of Stillwater and Saratoga. In 1778, he also led another successful mission in the battle of Rhode Island. After the Revolutionary War, he served as a judge for a short time. However, he died when he was in the office from a heart attack on November 28, 1785.

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Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743 in Shadwell, Virginia. Jefferson was a draftsman of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. He would end up becoming the second Vice President from 1797-1801 and the third U.S. President from 1801-1809. While being president, Jefferson was responsible for the Louisiana Purchase, which he then acquired land from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains that was worth $15,000,000. Jefferson ended up dying on July 4th, 1826 which marked the 50th year that the United States was an independent country.

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George Taylor was born in northern Ireland in 1716 and moved to Pennsylvania as an indentured servant. In 1736, he became an ironmaster for Warwick Furnace and Coventry Forge. He was chosen to be in the Second Continental Congress in 1776 and he signed the Declaration of Independence. He was apart of the Continental Congress from 1775-1777. He was the only former indentured servant to sign the Declaration of Independence. George then in 1777 was elected into the Supreme Executive Assembly of Pennsylvania. After 6 weeks, he stopped serving because of illness and problems with money. He also retired from public life after he left the assembly.

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William Hooper was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1742. Hooper was a lawyer and a politician. In 1770, Hooper was appointed deputy attorney general of North Carolina. William was also a member of the Continental Congress representing North Carolina from 1774 though 1777. William Hooper died in 1790.

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Francis hopkinson was born in 1737 in Philadelphia. He is the oldest of eight children and born into a wealthy family with close ties to British culture and aristocracy. He was a lawyer and a judge by profession who had also been employed as a customs collector and a shopkeeper but, his true talents were artistic. He was a talented artist who often relieved his boredom during congressional sessions by drawing caricatures of his colleagues. He was committed to the patriot cause by 1774 and began a two-year term in colonial legislature and was elected to the second continental congress in 1776. Throughout the revolutionary war he continued to produce essays and pamphlets in support of the patriot cause. After the war, he continued to write about political and social themes while actively advocating for ratification of the united states constitution. His legal career continued til the end of his life as he was commissioned a judge of admiralty in 1780 and appointed a federal circuit judge in 1790. He died suddenly in Philadelphia in 1791 at age 53.

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Oliver Wolcott was born in Windsor, Connecticut in 1726. After graduating out of Yale college he led a volunteer militia in the French and Indian War. He studied medicine for a time before taking up the practice of law and beginning a long and active political career. He was sheriff of Litchfield county for twenty years. He served in the colonial legislature and as a county judge. By 1774 he had risen to the rank of colenel in the militia. He was elected to the Continental Congress in 1775 and was appointed a Commissioner of Indian Affairs that same year. He became ill during the summer of 1776, and returned home missing both the vote for independence and formal singing of the Declaration of Independence.He singed the document some time after his return to Congress in October. During 1779, as a major general , he defended the Connecticut seacoast against the raids of William Tyron, Royal govener of New York. After the Revolutionary War he continued to serve Connecticut as a Lieutenant Govener, and as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention.

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John Hancock was born in 1737 in Braintree (now known as Quincy), Massachusetts. He was a wealthy merchant, as well as a leading political figure. He inherited a large sum of money after his uncle passed away. John Hancock served as a major general during the Revolutionary War. John Hancock was also the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence. He was the Seventh President of the United States in Congress Assembled. John Hancock was the governor of Massachusetts and one of the original "fathers" of US independence. John Hancock enrolled in Harvard University and received a Bachelor's degree. John Hancock died in 1793. He is remembered by his stylish and large signature on the Declaration of Independence.

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Thomas Lynch Jr. was born in 1749 in Winyaw, South Carolina. He was a trained lawyer, who went to law school in London. He was also an aristocratic planter. He was one half of the only father-son team to serve in the continental congress. He also attended the first and second Provincial Congress and the first state legislature. In early 1776, Thomas Lynch's father became ill, so Thomas Lynch was elected into the second continental congress to carry his father's duties. He signed the Declaration of Independence, since his father was too ill to do so, making him the second youngest signer. He and his father left the continental congress to go hime in 1776. In 1779, Thomas Lynch and his wife set out for sea to go to France but their ship became "lost at sea" and they died. Thomas Lynch was only 30 years old.

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Lyman Hall was born on April 12 1724 in Connecticut, he later bought land in Georgia. He was a physician, clergyman, and statesman. He served as a represtentive of Georgia in the 2nd Continental Congress and governor of Georgia. He signed the Declaration with Button Gwinnett and George Walton of Georgia. After the revolution he resumed medical practices in Savannah and later was elected governor. He also helped establish the University of Georgia in 1785 then died 5 years later.

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James Wilson was born in 1742 in scottland and immigrated to Philadelphia in 1766. During 1779-1789 Wilson was the s advocate general for maritime and commercial enterprise, he was elected congressman for the second time, he became the director of the first bank of north america, and he was an associate justice. The remainder of Wilsons life went downhill after his wife passed.

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Stephen Hopkins was born in 1707. He was a surveyor, astronomer, governor of Rhode Island Colony and Providence Plantations. He also was the Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court. Hopkins was very critical of British tyranny and believed in American independence. To show that he believed in it he attended both Continental Congresses, helped to draft important documents such as “The Rights of the Colonies Examined”, “Providence Gazette and Country Journal”, and the Articles of Confederation. Not only that but he was one of the oldest people to sign the Declaration of Independence. Everything he did was to support the patriots and gain independence. After leaving the Congress in 1778 he died in 1785

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Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston in 1706. He’s the oldest singer of the Decloration Of Independence. He was a self made business man who was also self educated. He was a politician, author and inventor. He also was a scientist, philosopher, and philanthropist. Ben Franklin set up a print shop in 1730 and wrote the Pennsylvania Gazette and the Poor Richards Almanac. He help with the invention of the Franklin Stove, bifocal lenses, and the Lightning rod. He was a public service worker since 1736. He joined the Continental Congress in May 1775. He also negotiated the France treaty with John Jay and John Adams, in 1783. Benjamin Franklin died at age 84 in 1790.

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George Walton was born in the 1740s in Virginia but had moved to Georgia and his uncle apprenticed him to a carpenter. After his apprenticeship was over he moved to Savannah to study law. He emerged as a leader of the political cause in Savannah and in 1776 was elected to the Continental Congress. He served on committees concerned with the western lands, national finance, and Indian affairs. In war he was wounded and captured by British in 1778 but released in 1779. He continued state and national service and served as Chief Justice of the state superior court, was a delegate to state constitutional convention, presidential elector, U.S senator, and governor of Georgia. He is the founder of Richmond Academy and college of Georgia in Athens. He unfortunately died in 1804 and in his mid to late 50s.

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Benjamin Rush was born in Pennsylvania in 1745. He was both a politician and a scientist who went to school in the University of Edinburgh in 1768.  He opened up a private medical practice in Philadelphia, and was appointed the professor of chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania. He served briefly in Congress in 1776. In 1777, he was appointed surgeon general in the Middle Department of the Continental Army. He is best remembered for his accomplishments as a physician and social reformer. He was a prominent advocate for the abolition of slavery and for scientific education of the masses, including women. During 1783 and 1787 he helped organize Dickinson College, established the first free medical clinic in the United States to treat the poor, and aided in founding the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery. Benjamin Rush died in 1813 at age 67.

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Arthur Middleton was born in 1742, near Charleston, South Carolina. He was an avid revolutionary who supported radical measures, and advocated the tarring and feathering of Loyalists and confiscation of their property. As the son of a wealthy planter, he had a good education in the University of Cambridge in England. When he returned home in 1763, he was elected to colonial legislature in 1764. Middleton also aided in the organization of a night raid on public arms stores at Charleston, raised money for armed resistance, and recommended defense measure for Charleston Harbor. He was elected to replace his father in the Continental Congress in 1776 as well. In 1780, Middleton joined the South Carolina militia. When Charleston fell, Middleton was captured, along with other signers. When he was released in 1781, he had found much of his fortune lost and his property destroyed.After the war, he spent much of his time restoring his plantation, but also served in the state legislature and was one of the original trustees of the College of Charleston. Arthur Middleton died in 1787 at the age of 44.

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Richard Stockton was born in 1730, to  a wealthy family in New Jersey. He graduated from the College of New Jersey, or what is now called Princeton University, in 1776. Stockton was a renowned lawyer who later became one of the best attorneys in the middle colonies. He preferred a quiet life but a series of offenses by the British, climaxing during the Stamp Act convinced him of the need for independence. Stockton was elected to the 2nd Continental Congress in 1776 and was the first of the New Jersey delegation to sign the Declaration of Independence. In November 1776, when the British attacked New Jersey, Stockton got his family to safety but he was imprisoned by the British. Stockton was eventually   released by the British and came back to New Jersey only to see that his home was destroyed by the British during the war and all of his belongings were destroyed as well. Richard Stockton died at the age of 50 in 1781.

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Francis Lewis was elected to the Continental Congress in 1775. He was born 1713 in Wales, and was taken prisoner in the French and Indian war. When he was returned in 1763. He amassed a large amount of wealth that same year, and became active in politics. He also may have been a leader for the Sons of Liberty. However, he lost a lot of his money sponsoring the Continental Army, and his wife was taken prisoner. When she was returned, her health was ruined and she died in 1729. This same year, he took a leave from Congress and never returned. He lived in retirement for the rest of his life. He died at age 89 during 1802.