Results for: "Signers of Declaration of Independence"

American Christianity, Calendar Articles, May Articles, Signers of Declaration of Independence

Listen Button Gwinnett (1735 – May 19 or 27, 1777) was an British-born American political leader who, as a representative of Georgia to the Continental Congress, was the second of the signatories (first signature on the left) on the United States Declaration of Independence. He was also, briefly, the provisional president of Georgia in 1777, and Gwinnett County (now a major suburb of...Read more... Read more...

American Christianity, Calendar Articles, March Articles, Signers of Declaration of Independence

Listen Thomas Heyward, Jr. (July 28, 1746 – March 6, 1809) was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and of the Articles of Confederation as a representative of South...Read more... Read more...

American Christianity, Calendar Articles, February Articles, Signers of Declaration of Independence

Listen Richard Stockton (October 1, 1730 – February 28, 1781) was an American lawyer, jurist, legislator, and a signer of the Declaration of...Read more... Read more...

American Christianity, Calendar Articles, February Articles, Signers of Declaration of Independence

Listen Robert R(obert) Livingston (November 27, 1746 – February 26, 1813) was an American lawyer, politician, diplomat from New York, and a Founding Father of the United States. He was known as “The Chancellor”, after the office he held for 25 years. He was a member of the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence, although he was recalled by his state...Read more... Read more...

American Christianity, Calendar Articles, February Articles, Signers of Declaration of Independence

Listen George Taylor (c. 1716 – February 23, 1781) was a Colonial ironmaster and a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of...Read more... Read more...

American Christianity, Calendar Articles, January Articles, Signers of Declaration of Independence

Listen Edward Rutledge (November 23, 1749 – January 23, 1800) was an American politician and youngest signer of the United States Declaration of Independence. He later served as the 39th Governor of South Carolina. The brief biographical sketch of his life presented below is taken from the nineteenth-century work, Lives of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence by Rev. Charles...Read more... Read more...