Question

who was the declaration of independence signed by?

Answer 1

licon

Answer 2

Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams

Answer 3

Richard Henry Lee, George Wythe, Elbridge Gerry, Oliver Wolcott, Lewis Morris, Thomas McKean, and Matthew Thornton signed the document after August 2, 1776, as well as seven new members of Congress added after July 4. These are the people who signed it.

Answer 4

some of them

Answer 5

Fifty-six delegates eventually signed the Declaration of Independence:

President of Congress

1. John Hancock (Massachusetts Bay)
New Hampshire

2. Josiah Bartlett
3. William Whipple
4. Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts Bay

5. Samuel Adams
6. John Adams
7. Robert Treat Paine
8. Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

9. Stephen Hopkins
10. William Ellery
Connecticut

11. Roger Sherman
12. Samuel Huntington
13. William Williams
14. Oliver Wolcott
New York

15. William Floyd
16. Philip Livingston
17. Francis Lewis
18. Lewis Morris
New Jersey

19. Richard Stockton
20. John Witherspoon
21. Francis Hopkinson
22. John Hart
23. Abraham Clark
Pennsylvania

24. Robert Morris
25. Benjamin Rush
26. Benjamin Franklin
27. John Morton
28. George Clymer
29. James Smith
30. George Taylor
31. James Wilson
32. George Ross
Delaware

33. Caesar Rodney
34. George Read
35. Thomas McKean
Maryland

36. Samuel Chase
37. William Paca
38. Thomas Stone
39. Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia

40. George Wythe
41. Richard Henry Lee
42. Thomas Jefferson
43. Benjamin Harrison
44. Thomas Nelson, Jr.
45. Francis Lightfoot Lee
46. Carter Braxton
North Carolina

47. William Hooper
48. Joseph Hewes
49. John Penn
South Carolina

50. Edward Rutledge
51. Thomas Heyward, Jr.
52. Thomas Lynch, Jr.
53. Arthur Middleton
Georgia

54. Button Gwinnett
55. Lyman Hall
56. George Walton

this is all of the people who signed it.