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John Hancock
John Hancock
The First Continental Congress had nothing to do with the Declaration of Independence.
The Second continental Congress produced the Declaration of Independence.
The Continental Congress issued the Declaration of Independence.
John Hancock was a wealthy Massachusetts merchant, silver smith, smuggler and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He served as president of the Continental Congress and governor of Massachusetts.
The Continental Congress chose Thomas Jefferson to write the Declaration of Independence.
He served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is remembered for his large and stylish signature on the United States Declaration of Independence, so much so that "John Hancock" became, in the United States, a synonym for "signature".
The Declaration of Independence was not really published, but it was signed. If you take it that way, the Continental Congress published it.
The Second Continental Congress.
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