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Fifty-six members of the Continental Congress risked their lives, reputations, and fortunes by signing the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and 1777, including George Clymer, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Morris, John Morton, George Ross, Benjamin Rush, James Smith, George Taylor, Josiah Bartlett, Matthew Thornton, William Whipple, John Adams, Samuel Adams, Eleridge Gerry, John Hancock, Robert Treat Paine, William Ellery, Samuel Huntington, Roger Sherman, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott, William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Lewis Morris, Abraham Clark, Francis Hopkinson, John Witherspoon, Thomas McKean, George Read, Caesar Rodney, Charles Carroll, William Paca, Lyman Hall, Carter Braxton, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Jefferson, Francis Lightfoot Lee, Thomas Nelson, Jr., George Wythe, Joseph Hewes, William Hooper, Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton, and Edward Rutledge.
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