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August 2, 1776

Georgia Delegates Sign Declaration of Independence

On August 2, 1776, Georgia joined the United States. Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, and George Walton signed the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia that day. Approved on July 4, the declaration was signed by only one man that day, John Hancock. Fifty other delegates to the 2nd Continental Congress signed on August 2. Later that […]

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Gwinnett was killed in a duel in 1777, making his signature one of the rarest and most valuable of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.