Lawyers, laborers, skilled craftsmen, farmers, and merchant traders were among the men who bravely and boldly signed their names to a document that could have been their death warrant. Yet those 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, remarkably, did not face a traitor’s death by the hands of the British government. Instead, some of them fought as patriots, and all helped in some way to form a unique republic: the United States of America.
But who were these men? What were their lives before, during, and after the moment they dipped a quill into an inkwell and signed a letter of grievances to England’s King George III in 1776?
