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Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949
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Hancock, John
Hancock, John, a Delegate from Massachusetts; born in Quincy, Norfolk County, Mass, January 12, 1737; pursued classical studies; was graduated from Harvard College in 1754; a selectman of Boston several terms; member of the provincial legislature 1766-1772; president of the Provincial Congress in 1774; active in pro-Revolutionary movements and, with Samuel Adams, was exempted from pardon in Governor Gage’s proclamation of June 12, 1775; Member of the Continental Congress 1775-1780, 1785, and 1786, and served as President of the Congress from May 24, 1775, to October 1777; first signer of the Declaration of Independence; served as senior major general of Massachusetts Militia during the Revolutionary War; member of the Massachusetts constitutional convention in 1780; Governor of Massachusetts 1780-1785; was again elected President of the Continental Congress on November 23, 1785, but resigned May 29, 1786, not having served on account of illness; again Governor of Massachusetts from 1787 until his death in Quincy, Mass., October 8, 1793; interment in Old Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Mass.
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Chicago:
U.S. Congress, "Hancock, John," Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949 in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1262 Original Sources, accessed July 5, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=DDMKS1X4YGMS1JS.
MLA:
U.S. Congress. "Hancock, John." Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949, in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1262, Original Sources. 5 Jul. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=DDMKS1X4YGMS1JS.
Harvard:
U.S. Congress, 'Hancock, John' in Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949. cited in , U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1262. Original Sources, retrieved 5 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=DDMKS1X4YGMS1JS.
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