(Although the Congress approved the Declaration on July 4, they didn't get around to signing it until Aug. 2.) One of them, William Hooper, was a Wilmington resident.

William Hooper [North Carolina] ... Abolitionist who did not free his own slaves. Longest-living Declaration signer and last to drop at age 95 in 1832. 21. Richard Henry Lee ...

Signers of Declaration of Independence knew risk loomed. ... Benjamin Harrison, John Hart, Joseph Hewes, Thomas Heyward Jr., William Hooper, Stephen Hopkins, Francis Hopkinson, Samuel Huntington, ...

• William Hooper. Elected to general assembly of North Carolina, 1773; ... About half or more of the declaration’s signers had held elective office previously, ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- It's William Whipple's turn to be recognized. The New Hampshire merchant is one of the lesser-known signers of the Declaration of Independence. This year, there are plans for ...

Historians remember George Wythe as a law reformer, professor of law, creator of the first American law school and judge. He also was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Sunken cement headstones bear the names of descendants of Massachusetts-born William Hooper Sr., a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a prominent Wilmington attorney.