USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -No, Abraham Baldwin did not sign the Declaration of Independence. However, Baldwin was one of two Georgians to sign the Constitution.

Detailed explanation-2: -Marker Text: Dedicated July 4, 1848, in honor of the signers of the Declaration of Independence for Georgia: George Walton, Lyman Hall and Button Gwinnett.

Detailed explanation-3: -At the signing of the Declaration of Independence, three men represented Georgia and signed on her behalf: Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall and George Walton.

Detailed explanation-4: -Georgia’s two signers of the United States Constitution, Abraham Baldwin and William Few, are the last names on that document as the geographic order by states on the Constitution has signatures reversed (north to south, left to right) from those on the Declaration of Independence.

Detailed explanation-5: -In 1787 Baldwin served as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. While Georgia had other delegates to attend, it was Abraham Baldwin and William Few who stayed through all of the debate and signed the constitution.