[MinorityRepublican]

bump for later read

[FeeinTennessee]

Well Bush came close...born on July 6 (don't know what year).

So was I...in '78.

I'm glad to share a birthday with one of the best Presidents in modern history!

[Paleo Conservative]

How many Presidents died on July 4? Two died on the same 4^th of July. Are there any others?

[geopyg]

The original print of several hundred copies of the Declaration only had Hancock's and another guys signature on it - and was the one that they sent to King George. The congress then voted that everyone present when they agreed on the Declaration should sign it (which was done weeks - perhaps months later, I don't recall). And one or two guys had already left for home so didn't sign it.

[commonasdirt]

When you are done answering that.....riddle me this please. Were any signers of the Declaration of Independence Jewish? The question just popped into my head.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Washington was the only President who was unanimously elected.

Martin Van Buren was the first President to have been born an American citizen.

Lincoln was the first President born outside of the original 13 states.

[Smokin' Joe]

However, did you know that the Bostonians repeated the act on March 7, 1774?

And the 'missing' tea party Chestertown, Maryland

[Bratch]

Conversely, both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on the July 4th, in 1826.

[ZULU]

There were similar “tea parties” in coastal cities all along the Atlantic Seaboard.