Important People Notes from August 23, 2014

Principle author of the Declaration of Independence

First Secretary of State

Third President of the United States

Chief of Staff to General Washington during the Revolution

Leader of Federalist Party

First Secretary of the Treasury

Lawyer, statesman, diplomat, and leading advocate for American

First Vice President

Second President of the United States

John Peter
Muhlenberg

Lutheran Minister who supported Independence

Served in the Continental Army Served in Pennsylvania governm

Jonathan
Trumbull Sr.

Colonial governor of Connecticut during the Revolution, but refu

Only colonial governor to remain in office after the war

Active member in the Sons of Liberty in Philadelphia

Surgeon General during the Revolutionary War

Supported social justice reforms

Prominent Patriot Leader

President of the Second Continental Congress

Signature became a symbol of freedom in the colonies

Scottish, Presbyterian minister

President of Princeton University

Represented New Jersey in the Continental Congress

Thomas
Jefferson

Alexander
Hamilton

John Adams

Benjamin
Rush

John Hancock

John
Witherspoon

Maryland Delegate to the Continental Congress

Part of a minority of Catholics who supported the Revolution

Last surviving signer when he died

Prominent diplomat

Author of three Federalist Papers; First Chief Justice of the Supr

Benjamin
Franklin

An American Renaissance Man inventor, activist, diplomat, a

Earned the title The First American for his early and relentless

George
Washington

Commander-in-Chief of the Continental army during the Revolut

First president of the United States

Charles
Carroll

John Jay