Thomas McKean
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Thomas McKean was an American lawyer, politician, and Founding Father. During the American Revolution he was a Delaware delegate to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, where he signed the Contin
1787 portrait of McKean and his son Thomas Jr. by Charles Willson Peale
Portrait by Charles Willson Peale
Sarah Armitage McKean with their daughter Maria Louisa (Charles Willson Peale, 1787)
The presentation of the Declaration of Independence to Congress.
Thomas Mifflin
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Thomas Mifflin was an American merchant, soldier, and politician from Pennsylvania, who is regarded as a Founding Father of the United States for his roles during and after the American Revolution. Mi
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…upon the "propriety of an immediate resort to Military force." Some weeks later, Mckean and General William Irvine wrote to Pennsylvania Governor Thomas Mifflin and discussed the mission of federal committees to negotiate with the Rebels, describing them as "well disposed." However, McKean and Irvine felt the…
Thomas Mifflin
The Death of General Mercer at the Battle of Princeton, January 3, 1777, painting by John Trumbull (Mifflin on far left, leading the cavalry charge)
General George Washington Resigning His Commission, painting by John Trumbull (Mifflin standing at left), 23 December 1783.
"State of Pennsylvania. An act to explain and amend an act, entitled, 'An act for the gradual abolition of slavery,'" signed by Pennsylvania governor Thomas Mifflin