#56 July 4

by Coach4aday · Published July 4, 2020 · Updated July 4, 2020

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Every 4th of July I remind myself of the leaders who signed the Declaration of Independence.

Those leaders risked their lives by signing a document that has led to freedoms we have today. Today as a country we are still grappling with issues of freedom. What they set out to do has not been perfected yet.

Back in 2014 I was curious about who signed the Declaration of Independence and researched the names on that document. Of course I had some idea about John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin. What I wasn’t sure of us was how many names were on the document and who were those people. That led me to discovering there were 56 signers of the Declaration.

There were 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence

I have lived in three states New Jersey, South Carolina, and North Carolina. I wanted to know more detail about the signers from those states.

The 56 men who signed the DECLARATION did it thru a process. Eight of the 56 were from Britain and Ireland. As I read the bios of each signee I realized that none of them was perfect, yet each had redeeming qualities and compelling life stories.