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Matthew Thornton (March 3, 1714 – June 24, 1803) was an Irish-born Founding Father of the United States who signed the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New Hampshire.
Matthew Thornton (17 de Março, 1713 – 24 de junho, 1803) foi um médico e político nascido-irlandês signatário da Declaração de Independência dos Estados Unidos, como um representante de New Hampshire . Antecedentes e primeiros anos de vida. Thornton nasceu em Limerick, Irlanda, filho de James Thornton e Elizabeth Malone.
Matthew Thornton was an Irish born American physician and legislator who was one of the 56 signers of the U.S. Declaration of Independence in 1776. He was a man of principles who believed that freedom is everyone’s bright right.
Matthew Thornton was a physician, a colonel, a legislator, and a delegate to the Continental Congress. He was born in Ireland in 1714 and became the first President of New Hampshire under the new state constitution in 1776.
Follow the life of Matthew Thornton, delegate to the Continental Congress and one of 56 signers, who bravely proclaimed the original thirteen colonies would ...
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18 de fev. de 2020 · Learn about Matthew Thornton, a New Hampshire doctor who became a delegate to the Continental Congress and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Find out his early life, his role in the Revolutionary War, and his later career as a political essayist.
Dr. Thornton was President of the five-man committee that drafted the first state constitution, and it was adopted on January 5, 1776, the first of the thirteen states to establish a constitution. Thornton was then elected to the new state legislature and elected Speaker of that assembly.
