On July 4, only John Hancock, the president of the Continental Congress, and Charles Thomson, the secretary, signed the Declaration. Then it went to the printer. The other delegates would sign on ...
John Adams was many things: lawyer, diplomat, member of the Continental Congress, and one of the original signers ... He lost and became Vice-president to George Washington during both terms ...
John Hancock, President of the Continental Congress, signed the Declaration of Independence. It is said that John Hancock's signed his name "with a great flourish" so England's "King George can ...
I feel myself unequal to this business” confessed John Adams, of the “grand scene open before me—a Congress.” In the fall of ...