Richard Henry Lee was the Virginia representative who proposed independence to the Congress. He was eventually elected as President of the Congress.
John Dickinson, a Founding Father, called for a resolution in the Second Continental Congress for Independence from Britain.
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The Virginia Plan proposed that both houses of Congress would be based on population.
Richard Henry Lee
July 2, 1776 is when congress adopts resolution of independence.
The resolution was moved in congress by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia on instructions from that colony's legislature.
The resolution was offered by Richard Henry Lee, as spokesman for the Virginia delegation. (Advocates of such a resolution, esp. John Adams of Massachusetts, urged Virginia to offer the resolution as a means of garnering more support from the Southern colonies.)
John Dickinson, a Founding Father, called for a resolution in the Second Continental Congress for Independence from Britain.
It was Richard Henry Lee who introduced a resolution for independence. This occurred at the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. The motion was seconded by John Adams.
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Richard Henry Lee was a delgate from Virginia to the Second Continental Congress. He proposed a resolution that America declare its independence from Great Britain. On July 2, 1772, the Second continental Congrees adopted that resolution and 2 days later adopted the final form of the Declaration of Independence.
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The First Continental Congress
Richard Henry Lee
was from Virginia and was among the first in the Continental Congress to call for the complete independence from Great Britain.