Thomas Jefferson is the primary author.
However, five men from the Constitutional Convention were delegated as a committee to write it. They were Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert R. Livingston and Roger Sherman.
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In 1776, Thomas Jefferson was one of the main authors of the Declaration.
Jefferson, who became the third president of the US (from 1801 to 1809), was the principal author of the famous document. He was a member of the five-man committee charged with preparing the declaration, along with Benjamin Franklin, Robert R. Livingston, Roger Sherman, and future president John Adams.
Thomas Jefferson, later the third President of the United States, was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence.
The primary author of The Declaration of Independence was Thomas Jefferson. He did have other influences on this document, but his work is mostly what affects us today as American citizens.
Thomas Jefferson was the principal author of the Declaration of Independance. Other men, some of which signed the document, help to write it, though most of the credit should go to Jefferson.
Thomas Jefferson was both one of the youngest delegates to the continental congress and the primary author of the declaration of independence. Benjamin Franklin and John Adams also served on the committee for the declaration but Jefferson was told by Adams the he (Jefferson) was the best writer of all of them.
The two Declaration signers who became President were John Adams (2nd US President) and Thomas Jefferson (3rd US President).(The Benjamin Harrison (V) who signed the Declaration was the father of 9th President William Henry Harrison and the great-grandfather of 23rd President Benjamin Harrison.)
The president of the United States who was also an author of the Declaration of Independence was Thomas Jefferson. He wrote the Declaration of Independence with Benjamin Franklin and Roger Sherman.