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Hancock's signature up close. Hancock was president of Congress when the Declaration of Independence was adopted and signed. He is primarily remembered by Americans for his large, flamboyant signature on the Declaration, so much so that "John Hancock" became, in the United States, an informal synonym for signature. [157]
Hancock's large, flamboyant signature became iconic, and John Hancock emerged in the United States as an informal synonym for "signature". [20] Future presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were among the signatories. Edward Rutledge (age 26) was the youngest signer and Benjamin Franklin (age 70) the oldest.
The name "John Hancock" or just "Hancock" has become a synonym for "signature" in the United States. [ 1 ] A signature ( / ˈ s ɪ ɡ n ɪ tʃ ər , ˈ s ɪ ɡ n ə tʃ ər / ; from Latin : signare , "to sign") is a depiction of someone's name, nickname, or even a simple "X" or other mark that a person writes on documents as a proof of identity ...
And sure enough, there he was in Independence Hall in 1776, signing that Declaration, below and to the left of John Hancock’s now-famous penmanship. And then, in 1777, he was killed in a duel ...
The Declaration of Independence is one of the most important artifacts in American history, but time hasn't been kind to the 240-year-old document.
His large, flamboyant signature became iconic, and the term John Hancock emerged in the United States as a metaphor of "signature". [99] A commonly circulated but apocryphal account claims that, after Hancock signed, the delegate from Massachusetts commented, "The British ministry can read that name without spectacles."
Boyd argued that if a document was signed in Congress on July 4, it would have been the Fair Copy, and probably would have been signed only by John Hancock with his signature being attested by Thomson. [12] The Fair Copy may have been destroyed in the printing process, [13] or destroyed during the debates in accordance with Congress's secrecy ...
These checks usually bear the often illegible signature of the secretary of the Treasury, but Trump somehow boondoggled his flamboyant John Hancock signature onto the Treasury checks.