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Bean Soup! Featured Black Americans in Congress. Featured Mace of the U. House of Represen- tatives. House Trivia Timeline. Featured Resources for National History Day Continental and Confederation Congresses. Footnotes 1 Roscoe R. Office of the Historian: history mail. FEW, William. KING, Rufus. He and his friend Benjamin Franklin were the two oldest signers. Hopkins was also a cousin of the traitorous Benedict Arnold. Born into a wealthy Philadelphia family, Hopkinson studied law there and in England, and held several judgeships in Pennsylvania, though he represented New Jersey at the Constitutional Convention.
He was an accomplished writer and composer, whose works included a satirical anti-British ballad, set to the tune of "Yankee Doodle," called "Battle of the Kegs.
A self-taught lawyer born in the Connecticut town of Windham, Huntington was successively an attorney, tax collector, town-meeting moderator, and justice of the peace in nearby Norwich, going on to hold several higher offices in the colony. After independence, he became lieutenant-governor and chief superior court judge in Connecticut, and for a decade was its governor.
He is credited with helping to build roads and develop industry in the state. When John F. Kennedy hosted an assemblage of Nobel Prize winners from around the Western Hemisphere at the White House in , he remarked "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
He was also the principal author of the Declaration of Independence. One of the only pair of brothers to sign the Declaration of Independence, Lee was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, the first democratically elected legislative body in British North America and a hotbed of revolutionary sentiment later dissolved by the British. It continued to meet in secret at the Raleigh Tavern in Williamsburg. He was an associate of Patrick "Give me liberty or give me death! A signer with his brother, Francis, Lee was likewise a radical member of the Virginia House of Burgesses.
Lee was elected to attend the first Continental Congress in He was to become the first state senator from Virginia under the newly formed U. Lewis was born in Wales and educated in Scotland and England, then worked as a merchant in London before emigrating to New York to set up his own business in He subsequently entered into international trade, making several trans-Atlantic voyages and surviving two shipwrecks off the coast of Ireland.
Though he grew wealthy, he turned his attentions to radical causes and, along with fellow signer Philip Livingston, contracted to supply arms and ammunition to the rebellious colonists.
He was a strong supporter of independence in the Continental Congress, and continued to serve in that body after being elected to the New York State Senate in Livingston was also one of the founders of King's College, which became Columbia University.
One of the two youngest signers, along with Edward Rutledge — both were 26 — Lynch attended Cambridge University in England and studied law in London. Back home, he was elected to the Continental Congress, but fell ill shortly after signing the Declaration.
Late in , he and his wife sailed for the West Indies, but the ship disappeared and neither was ever heard from again. The Pennsylvania-born McKean held an astonishing number of positions in both that state and Delaware over the course of his career, including member of the Delaware Assembly, Delaware delegate to the Stamp Act Congress, collector of Customs and commissioner of revenue for New Castle County Delaware , delegate to the Continental Congress, president of Delaware, and both chief justice and later governor of the new state of Pennsylvania.
Born in Charleston but educated at Cambridge University in England, Middleton traveled around Europe for three years before returning to South Carolina, where he was elected to the provincial House of Commons.
He was active in the defense of Charleston against the British, but was captured and spent a year imprisoned. After the war, he served in the state legislature and was one of the original trustees of Charleston College.
Morris was born on his family's farm estate, Morrisania, in what is now the Bronx, and studied at Yale. While a delegate to the Continental Congress, he also served as a brigadier general in the New York Militia. He went on to become a member of the New York legislature after independence. When the federal government was considering possible sites for a permanent national capital, he proposed that they consider Morrisania — citing as one of its advantages that its location meant it could "be amply protected by the hardy sons of New England on the one side, and the inhabitants of the populous City of New York on the other.
Born in England but arriving in America at the age of 10, Morris became a wealthy importer and businessman in Philadelphia.
Financially acute, he was a major force in securing financing for the Revolutionary War, and after independence he created a national bank that became the Bank of North America. This was credited with bringing economic stability to the new nation and establishing its financial credibility abroad.
Washington tried to appoint him as the first secretary of the treasury, but he declined and suggested Alexander Hamilton for the post instead.
A Pennsylvania native, Morton held a number of civic offices there, including justice of the peace, high sheriff, and associate judge of the supreme court.
He became chairman of the committee that wrote the Articles of Confederation — which served as the first constitution of the newly formed republic until it was supplanted by the present-day Constitution in Educated in England, Nelson was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses and a co-founder of the Virginia Militia, becoming its first commander and continuing his military career after being elected to the Continental Congress.
When Thomas Jefferson declined to run for reelection as governor of Virginia in , Nelson replaced him, still retaining his leadership of the Militia. The son of a wealthy planter, Paca earned a master's degree from Philadelphia College at the age of 18 and a license to practice law at He became friendly with another Maryland signer, Samuel Chase, and the two became among the leading anti-British voices in the region. He was elected as governor of the state of Maryland after independence, and George Washington appointed him as chief justice of the state's U.
District Court. Boston-born and educated at Harvard College, Paine worked as a teacher before shipping out on a series of trading and whaling voyages that took him as far afield as Greenland and Spain. Back on dry land, he became a lawyer, and for a time was a friendly rival to another lawyer, John Adams.
Paine was known in the Continental Congress as the "Objection Maker," because he frequently objected to the proposals of other members. A native of Virginia, where he was licensed to practice law at the age of 22, Penn moved to North Carolina in , setting up a practice and becoming politically active. Besides serving in the Continental Congress, he sat on the Board of War, which oversaw military affairs during the Revolutionary War. Born in colonial Maryland, Read studied law in Philadelphia, passing the bar at the age of 20, and later moved to Delaware.
He became president of Delaware's Constitutional Convention in After Delaware became the first state in the fledgling Union, he was elected state senator twice and then appointed chief justice of the State of Delaware, a position he held until his death.
Born on the family farm in the Delaware Colony, Rodney was never formally educated. Nonetheless, he had a distinguished career that included participation in the Colonial Assembly and the Stamp Act Congress, as well as the Continental Congress.
He later served as president of the state of Delaware and a member of the state assembly. Born in Delaware, Ross passed the bar in Philadelphia at the age of 20, subsequently becoming attorney general for the Pennsylvania community of Carlisle. He was elected to the Continental Congress three times, and in , shortly before his death, was appointed as a judge for the Pennsylvania Court of Admiralty, which heard cases involving maritime law.
Pennsylvanian Rush was a physician and educator, who studied medicine in Edinburgh, Scotland, and spent several years around Europe studying languages, medicine, and science. Back in America, he was appointed surgeon general to an arm of the Continental Army. In his final years, he served dual roles as treasurer of the U. Mint and professor of medical theory and clinical practice at the University of Pennsylvania.
When he died at the age of 68, he was considered the most celebrated physician in the country. Educated at Oxford University and a member of the English bar, Rutledge was one of the two youngest signers, along with Thomas Lynch Jr. He left the Continental Congress to serve in the Charleston Battalion of Artillery, helping to defend the city against the British.
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