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.

Who has the most valuable signature on the Declaration of Independence? Button Gwinnett is not one of the most famous signers ...

Never was that more evident than in early July 1776, when members of Second Continental Congress debated and revised the Declaration of Independence. The document, which was written by Thomas ...

Of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, historians list as many as 9 as “farmers”. The National Archives, however, lists only one with that occupation – John Morton of ...