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The Fourth of July

Posted by
Graciel·la (Vic. Catalonia) (CAT. New European State, Poland) on 4 July 2015 in Miscellaneous and Portfolio.

Thomas Jefferson served as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress beginning in June 1775.
When Congress began considering a resolution of independence in June 1776, John Adams ensured that Jefferson was appointed to the five-man committee to write a declaration in support of the resolution. Over the next seventeen days, Jefferson had limited time for writing and finished the draft quickly. A final draft was presented to the Congress on June 28, 1776. The title of the document was "A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled.
The Declaration was ultimately a formal explanation of why Congress had voted on July 2 to declare independence from Great Britain, more than a year after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War.

The declaration was signed on July 4.

On July 4 1826, the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, at ten minutes before one o'clock in the afternoon, Jefferson died at the age of 83,
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Photo of series US's snapshot 2015.
Taken in Rapid City (SD) Corner of 7th St. & St. Joseph St.
Jefferson’s statue, depicts him writing the Declaration of Independence.
Sculptor: Edward E. Hlavka

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