independance hall
no
In order to sign the Declaration, a person had to be one of the delegates to the Second Continental Congress.
there was 55 people to sign
no they wanted to have freedom and independence
John Hancock was the President of the Continental Congress and the first to sign the Declaration of Independence.
John Hancock
Thomas Jefferson
Prior to its work on the Declaration of Independence, the Second Continental Congress included Washington as a congressman from Virginia. But he resigned his position as a delegate when Congress formed the Continental Army and appointed him commanding general on June 14, 1775. So he was unavailable to participate, or to sign the Declaration.
John Hancock
John Hancock
John Hancock, for both.
Thomas McKean (Delaware) was the last member of the Second Continental Congress to sign the Declaration of Independence. He was a delegate to the Continental Congress from 1774-81 and served as a delegate to the Congress of the Confederation from 1781-1783.