USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -John Hancock was one of the Founding Fathers and the president of the Second Continental Congress. He is remembered for signing the Declaration of Independence with a very large signature. After the war he was governor of Massachusetts.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first and largest signature was that of the president of the Congress, John Hancock of Massachusetts.

Detailed explanation-3: -As President of the Second Continental Congress, John Hancock was the first to sign this historic document. He used large bold script and signed under the text in the center of the page. At that time, a general practice was to sign below text on the right and by geographic location.

Detailed explanation-4: -John Adams was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He was also the first Vice-President and second President of the United States. A lawyer who became an outspoken proponent of independence, the fact that we have a United States today at all is largely because of him. This is his story.

Detailed explanation-5: -John Hancock is perhaps best known for his signature on the Declaration of Independence. Examine this 19th-century painting, from the Mount Vernon collections, that depicts Thomas Jefferson handing a draft of the Declaration to Hancock, who was then president of Congress.