There were 56 signers to the Declaration of Independence. The youngest was Edward Rutledge from South Carolina at 26 years old. The oldest was Benjamin Franklin at 70 years old.

The Declaration of Independence was signed on August 2 ... signatures of all 56 founding fathers. For the Declaration’s more well-known signers, signatures weren’t hard to find.

There were 56 delegates at the Second Continental Congress who signed the Declaration of Independence, according to the National Constitution Center. These men are listed among the nation's ...

Now, local historians want to make sure those who call the Lehigh Valley home today know about Taylor, one of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence. Taylor agreed to become indentured ...

So, there is not much to celebrate this April 19 or July 4. However, the antidote to the 900-page Project 2025 is still that ...

Congress refrained from publishing the Declaration of Independence with a list of the signers until six months later when America won its first great victory in the war. Wrote New Jersey delegate ...

there was only one signed copy of the Declaration of Independence. "There is only one copy of the engrossed and signed Declaration of Independence, in the National Archives in Washington ...

Of all his writings, Thomas Jefferson's most famous and far-reaching was undoubtedly his draft of the Declaration of Independence. Although the issue of slavery was widely debated -- both the ...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 10 December 1948, was the result of the experience of the Second World War. With the end of that war ...

The Declaration of Independence (1776) and the Constitution of the United States (1787) were both signed in this building in Philadelphia. The universal principles of freedom and democracy set forth ...

Members of the Halifax County Historical Society and their guests/potential members will be “enlightened” Sunday, April 27, ...