The Men Behind the Declaration of Independence

This collection presents you with the biographies of fifty-eight individuals, some of them famous names, some forgotten men of the past, but all crucial in the accomplishment of a single object, the independence of the United State:Thomas JeffersonJohn HancockBenjamin FranklinRoger ShermanEdward RutledgeThomas M'KeanPhilip LivingstonGeorge WytheAbraham ClarkFrancis LewisRichard StocktonSamuel AdamsDr. Benjamin RushOliver WolcottGeorge ReadThomas HeywardRobert MorrisJohn WitherspoonThomas Lynch, Jr.Matthew ThorntonWilliam FloydWilliam WhippleFrancis Hopkinson, Esq.Josiah BartlettArthur MiddletonJames WilsonCharles Carroll, of CarrolltonWilliam WilliamsSamuel HuntingtonGeorge WaltonGeorge ClymerCarter BraxtonJohn MortonRichard Henry LeeStephen HopkinsRobert Treat PaineGeorge TaylorFrancis Lightfoot LeeThomas StoneLewis MorrisJohn HartButton GwinnettWilliam ElleryLyman HallJohn PennElbridge GerryWilliam PacaGeorge RossBenjamin HarrisonCæsar RodneySamuel ChaseWilliam HooperThomas NelsonJames SmithJoseph HewesJohn AdamsGeorge WashingtonPatrick HenryDeclaration of IndependenceWashington's Farewell Address A Declaration by the Representatives of the United Colonies of North AmericaArticles of ConfederationConstitution of the United StatesThe Declaration of Independence as originally written by Thomas Jefferson