Declaration of Independence

painting by John Trumbull in the U.S. Capitol

Committee of Fourteen man chair table carpet paper quill door George Washington William Whipple Josiah Bartlett Thomas Lynch Benjamin Harrison V Richard Henry Lee Samuel Adams George Clinton William Paca Samuel Chase Lewis Morris William Floyd Arthur Middleton Thomas Heyward, Jr. Charles Carroll of Carrollton George Walton Stephen Hopkins William Ellery George Clymer Robert Morris Thomas Willing Benjamin Rush Elbridge Gerry Robert Treat Paine Abraham Clark William Hooper Joseph Hewes James Wilson Francis Hopkinson John Adams Roger Sherman Robert R. Livingston Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Franklin Richard Stockton Francis Lewis John Witherspoon Samuel Huntington William Williams Oliver Wolcott Charles Thomson John Hancock George Read John Dickinson Edward Rutledge Thomas McKean Philip Livingston hat Carter Braxton