There were 56 signers to the Declaration of Independence. The youngest was Edward Rutledge from South Carolina at 26 years old. The oldest was Benjamin Franklin at 70 years old.

The Declaration of Independence was signed on August 2 ... signatures of all 56 founding fathers. For the Declaration’s more well-known signers, signatures weren’t hard to find.

Congress refrained from publishing the Declaration of Independence with a list of the signers until six months later when America won its first great victory in the war. Wrote New Jersey delegate ...

There were 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence and 39 of the Constitution, all of whom should be considered Founding Fathers. However, many historians like to include famous Americans ...

Of all his writings, Thomas Jefferson's most famous and far-reaching was undoubtedly his draft of the Declaration of Independence. Although the issue of slavery was widely debated -- both the ...