Hello!Without any second thought I pick John Hancock.Thanks to his courage and eloquence he was chosen to preside over the second Continental Congress. He was the first to sign the Declaration of Independence and eventually to be trial for treason and to be hang if not successful.Remember he was a politician from Massachussets like his mentor Samuel Adams .In my view Massachussets is the birth place of American Revolutionary since all uprisings ,turbulences and harassment over the Redcoats ignited there. .The shot heard ?round the world was shot there .Boston massacre and Boston Tea boycott also took place there not mention the battle of Lexington and Concord .Hancock and Adams were involved in one way or another in these events that lead to Revolution.Lastly with George Washington as commander of the continental Army ,it was John Hancock who instructed him the actions to take in his two years President of Continental Congress.According to legend, Hancock signed the Declaration of Independence so largely and clearly so that King George III could read it without his spectacles.
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