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         Thomas Jefferson was well known for his writing, and so when the delegates in Congress assembled were tasked with selecting a committee to draft a document to express the colonists' sentiments for independence from British rule, his name received the most votes.

"The Declaration Committee" by Currier and Ives
Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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