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WILLIAM HOOPER
JOHN PENN
Born: June 28, 1742
Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts
Age at Signing Declaration of Independence: 34
Occupation: Lawyer
Public Service: Colonial Assembly of North Carolina, 1773-1776; Continental Congress, 1774-1777; First North Carolina Provincial Congress, 1774; North Carolina General Assembly, 1777-1778; member of commission to settle boundary dispute between Massachusetts and New York, 1786.
Died: October 14, 1790
Born: May 17, 1741
Birthplace: Port Royal, Virginia
Age at Signing Declaration of Independence: 36
Occupation: Lawyer
Public Service: Third North Carolina Provincial Congress, 1775; Continental Congress, 1775-1780; North Carolina Board of War, 1780; Receiver of Taxes for North Carolina, 1784.
Died: September 14, 1788
SOUTH CAROLINA
THOMAS HEYWARD JR.
Born: July 28, 1746
Birthplace: St. Lukes Parish, South Carolina
Age at Signing Declaration of Independence: 30
Occupation: Lawyer
Public Service: Commons House of Assembly of South Carolina, 1772; First Provincial Congress of South Carolina, 1774; South Carolina Council of Safety, 1775-1776; South Carolina General Assembly, 1776-1778; Continental Congress, 1776-1778; signed Articles of Confederation, 1778; South Carolina Constitutional Committee, 1776; South Carolina House of Representatives, 1778- 1780 and 1782-1790; fought in Revolutionary War; Judge, Circuit Court, 1785-1789; South Carolina Constitutional Convention, 1790.
Died: March 6, 1809
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