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Signing their lives away: the fame and misfortune of the men who signed the Declaration of Independence
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Quirk Book
Publication Date
©2009
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English
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Introduction
A clarification : the real Independence Day
I : New Hampshire
Josiah Bartlett : the signer immortalized on The West Wing
William Whipple : the signer who fought for freedom with his slave
Matthew Thornton : the signer who led "The Nation of New Hampshire"
II : Massachusetts
John Adams : the signer everyone loved to hate
Samuel Adams : the signer whose brewery went bust
Elbridge Gerry : the signer who gave us gerrymandering
John Hancock : the signer who signed first
Robert Treat Paine : the signer who objected to, well, everything
III : Rhode Island
William Ellery : the signer who was two degrees from Kevin Bacon
Stephen Hopkins : the signer with the worst penmanship
Samuel Huntington : the signer who became the first U.S. President
sort of
Roger Sherman : the signer who signed everything
William Williams : the signer who was certain he would hang
Oliver Wolcott : the signer who melted King George's heart (and then some)
V : New York
Philip Livingston : the prince of New York
William Floyd : the signer whose home was turned into a stable
Francis Lewis : the signer whose wife was imprisoned
Lewis Morris : the signer buried in one of America's poorest neighborhoods
VI : New Jersey
Abraham Clark : the signer whose sons were imprisoned
John Hart : the signer who slept in caves
Francis Hopkinson : the signer who designed the U.S. flag
Richard Stockton : the only signer who recanted the declaration
John Witherspoon : the signer who was also a minister
VII : Pennsylvania
John Morton : the first signer to die
Benjamin Franklin : the signer known throughout the world
James Wilson : the signer who went broke on shady land deals
Robert Morris : the signer who financed the war
and ended up in debtors' prison
George Clymer : the signer whose homes were targeted by the British
George Ross : the signer related to America's most famous seamstress
Benjamin Rush : the signer who loved to gossip about other signers
George Taylor : the signer who started out as an indentured servant
James Smith : the signer who was coy about his age
VIII : Delaware
Caesar Rodney : Delaware's famous midnight rider
George Read : the only signer who voted against Independence
Thomas McKean : the signer who waited five years to sign
IX : Maryland
Charles Carroll of Carrollton : the last signer to die
Samuel Chase : the signer better remembered as "Old Bacon Face
William Paca : the signer who dared to acknowledge his illegitimate child
Thomas Stone : the signer who died of a broken heart
X : Virginia
Carter Braxton : the signer who had eighteen children
Benjamin Harrison : the signer who played Falstaff to Congress
Thomas Jefferson : the signer who wrote the Declaration
Richard Henry Lee : the six-fingered signer
Francis Lightfoot Lee : the signer who lived in his brother's shadow
Thomas Nelson Jr. : the signer who ordered troops to fire on his own home
George Wythe : the signer who was poisoned by his nephew
XI : North Carolina
Joseph Hewes : the signer who worked himself to death
William Hooper : the signer who feared democracy
John Penn : the signer who taught himself how to read and write
XII : South Carolina
Thomas Lynch Jr. : the signer buried at the bottom of the sea
Arthur Middleton : the signer also known as Andrew Marvell
Edward Rutledge : the signer who delayed independence by a month
Thomas Heyward Jr. : the signer-songwriter
XIII : Georgia
Lyman Hall : the signer who dragged Georgia into the Union
George Walton : the signer who was orphaned, impoverished, abused, shot, and imprisoned
Button Gwinnett : the signer with the $150,000 autograph
Appendix : Text of the Declaration of Independence ; Time line ; The miscellany of independence.
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