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.

Over the course of many months, the Founding Fathers would work on the Declaration of Independence until it was officially ...

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