Independence Day
1776 Congress

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The second Continental Congress. John Hancock (President of Congress), Charles Thomson (Secretary of Congress), John Adams (Delegate from Massachusetts), Thomas McKean (Delegate from Delaware), Thomas Jefferson (Delegate from Virginia), James Wilson (Delegate from Pennsylvania), John Dickinson (Delegate from Pennsylvania), Roger Sherman (Delegate from Connecticut), Lyman Hall (Delegate from Georgia), Edward Rutledge (Delegate from South Carolina), Ceaser Rodney (Delegate from Delaware), John Witherspoon (Delegate from New Jersey), Benjamin Franklin (Delegate from Pennsylvania), Andrew McNair (Congressional custodian), Richard Henry Lee (Delegate from Virginia), Stephen Hopkins (Delegate from Rhode Island).