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Josiah Bartlett: the signer immortalized on The West Wing -- William Whipple: the singer who fought for freedom -- Matthew Thornton: the singer who led "The nation of New Hampshire" -- Massachusetts. John Adams: the signer everyone loved to hate -- Samuel Adams: the signer whose bravery went bust -- Elbridge Gerry: the signer who gave us gerrymandering -- John Hancock: the signer who signed first -- Robert Treat Paine: the signer who objected to, well, everything -- Rhode Island. William Ellery: the signer who is two degrees from Kevin Bacon -- Stephen Hopkins: the signer with the worst penmanship -- Connecticut. Samuel Huntington: the signer who became the first U.S. President, sort of... -- Roger Sherman: the signer who signed everything -- William Williams: the signer who was certain he would hang -- Oliver Wolcott: the signer who melted King George's heart (and then some) -- New York. Philip Livingston: the prince of New York -- William Floyd: the signer whose home was turned into a stable -- Francis Lewis: the signer whose wife was imprisoned -- Lewis Morris: the signer buried in one of America's poorest neighborhoods -- New Jersey. Abraham Clark: the signer whose sons were imprisoned -- John Hart: the signer who slept in caves -- Francis Hopkinson: the signer who designed the U.S. flag -- Richard Stockton: the only signer who recanted the Declaration -- John Witherspoon: the signer who was also a minister -- Pennsylvania. John Morton: the first signer to die -- Benjamin Franklin: the signer known throughout the world -- James Wilson: the signer who went broke on shady land deals -- Robert Morris: the signer who financed the war, and ended up in debtors' prison -- George Clymer: the signer whose homes were targeted by the British -- George Ross: the signer related to America's most famous seamstress -- Benjamin Rush: the signer who loved to gossip about other signers -- George Taylor: the signer who started out as an indentured servant -- James Smith: the signer who was coy about his age -- Delaware. Caesar Rodney: Delaware's famous midnight rider -- George Read: the only signer who voted against Independence -- Thomas McKean: the signer who waited five years to sign -- Maryland. Charles Carroll of Carrollton: the last signer to die -- Samuel Chase: the signer better remembered as "Old Bacon Face" -- William Paca: the signer who dared to acknowledge his illegitimate child -- Thomas Stone: the signer who died of a broken heart -- Virginia. Carter Braxton: the signer who had eighteen children -- Benjamin Harrison: the singer who played Falstaff to Congress -- Thomas Jefferson: the signer who wrote the Declaration -- Richard Henry Lee: the six-fingered signer -- Francis Lightfoot Lee: the signer who lived in his brother's shadow -- Thomas Nelson Jr.: the signer who ordered troops to fire on his own home -- George Wythe: the signer who was poisoned by his nephew -- North Carolina. Joseph Hewes: the signer who worked himself to death -- William Hooper: the signer who feared democracy -- John Penn: the signer who taught himself how to read and write -- South Carolina. Thomas Lynch Jr.: the signer buried at the bottom of the sea -- Arthur Middleton: the signer also known as Andrew Marvell -- Edward Rutledge: the signer who delayed Independence by a month -- Thomas Heyward Jr.: the signer-songwriter -- Georgia. Lyman Hall: the signer who dragged Georgia into the Union -- George Walton: the signer who was orphaned, impoverished, abused, shot, and imprisoned -- Button Gwinnett: the signer with the $7000,000 autograph -- Appendixes. 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