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Existing comment: "The Declaration of Independence," mural by Barry Faulkner. This mural shows twenty-eight delegates to the Continental Congress of 1776 -- twenty-six of whom signed the Declaration. The two who did not sign are indicated with an asterisk. Thomas Jefferson is about two-thirds over from the left presenting the Declaration to John Hancock and other delegates. From left to right: Robert Morris, Pennsylvania Samuel Chase, Maryland Charles Carroll of Carrolton, Maryland Stephen Hopkins, Rhode Island Samuel Adams, Massachusetts Thomas McKean, Delaware John Dickinson, Pennsylvania * Abraham Clark, New Jersey William Ellery, Rhode Island John Witherspoon, New Jersey John Hancock, Massachusetts Benjamin Harrison, Virginia Samuel Huntington, Connecticut Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Roger Sherman, Connecticut John Adams, Massachusetts Robert R Livingston, New York * Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania Richard Henry Lee, Virginia Thomas Nelson, Jr, Virginia Joseph Hewes, North Carolina Edward Rutledge, South Carolina Lyman Hall, Georgia Josiah Bartlett, New Hampshire Thomas Stone, Maryland Francis Hopkinson, New Jersey George Wythe, Virginia William Floyd, New York

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