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Q:What 2 officials seen on Colonial Currency have signed both the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence? What colonies were they from?

 

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My official answer is Benjamin Franklin and George Clymer both of Pennsylvania

 

 

 

 

Constitution signers (40):

 

Connecticut

William Samuel Johnson

Roger Sherman

 

Delaware

Richard Bassett

Gunning Bedford, Jr.

Jacob Broom

John Dickinson

George Read

 

Georgia

Abraham Baldwin

William Few

 

Maryland

Daniel Carroll

Daniel Jenifer

James McHenry

 

Massachusetts

Rufus King

Nathaniel Gorham

 

New Hampshire

Nicholas Gilman

John Langdon

 

New Jersey

David Brearley

Jonathan Dayton

William Livingston

William Paterson

 

New York

Alexander Hamilton

 

North Carolina

William Blount

Richard Dobbs Spaight

Hugh Williamson

 

Pennsylvania

George Clymer

Thomas FitzSimons

Benjamin Franklin

Jared Ingersoll

Dunder Mifflin :)

Gouveneur Morris

Robert Morris

James Wilson

 

South Carolina

Rhett Butler :)

Chas. Cotesworth Pinckney

Chas Pinckney

John Rutledge

 

Virginia

John Blair

James Madison

George Washington

 

Secretary

William Jackson

 

 

 

 

Declaration signers (56):

 

Connecticut

Samuel Huntington

Roger Sherman

William Williams

Oliver Wolcott

 

Delaware

Thomas McKean

George Read

Caesar Rodney

 

Georgia

Button Gwinnett

Lyman Hall (There is a building named after this guy at Georgia Tech)

George Walton

 

Maryland

Charles Carroll

Samuel Chase

William Paca

Thomas Stone

 

Massachusetts

John Adams

Samuel Adams

Elbridge Gerry

John Hancock

Robert Paine

 

New Hampshire

Josiah Bartlett

Matthew Thornton

William Whipple

 

New Jersey

Abraham Clark

John Hart

Francis Hopkinson

Richard Stockton

John Witherspoon

 

New York

William Floyd

Francis Lewis

Philip Livingston

Lewis Morris

 

North Carolina

Joseph Hewes

William Hooper

John Penn

 

Pennsylvania

George Clymer

Benjamin Franklin

Robert Morris

John Morton

George Ross

Benjamin Rush

James Smith

George Taylor

James Wilson

 

South Carolina

Thomas Heyward, Jr.

Thomas Lynch, Jr.

Arthur Middleton

Edward Rutledge

 

Rhode Island

William Ellery

Stephen Hopkins

 

Virginia

Carter Braxton

Benjamin Harrison

Thomas Jefferson

Francis Lightfoot Lee

Richard Henry Lee

Thomas Nelson, Jr.

George Wythe

 

 

 

Instersection of Constitution signers and Declaration signers (6):

 

Connecticut

Roger Sherman (the only person to sign all four of the great documents of American sovereignty)

 

Delaware

George Read

 

Pennsylvania

George Clymer

Benjamin Franklin

Robert Morris

James Wilson

 

 

 

Intersection of Constitution, Declaration, and Colonial Currency:

 

George Clymer signed; printed by Ben Franklin note

Province of Pennsylvania

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Benjamin Franklin:

Province of Pennsylvania

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What 2 officials seen on Colonial Currency have signed both the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence? What colonies were they from?

 

George Clymer – Pennsylvania

James (Joseph) Wilson – Pennsylvania

 

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