Benjamin Rush: This is not true. Benjamin Rush was a staunch opponent of slavery and the slave trade.
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John Witherspoon of New Jersey
That was Ben Franklin.
Yes, he did. He was a founding father and a signer of the Declaration of independence too.he was once a congressman and he sign the declaration of independence
The youngest signer of the Declaration of Independence was Edward Rutledge of Southern Carolina. He was 26. He was also initially opposed to independence, but signed the Declaration for the sake of unanimity.The oldest signer was Benjamin Franklin, who was 70 at the time. At the signing, Franklin famously said "We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately."
Button Gwinnett, who was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.