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Robert M. S. McDonald

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    Who Wrote the Declaration of Independence?

    The Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Thomas Jefferson was not then credited with its authorship.
    by Robert M. S. McDonald, Matthew Wills via JSTOR Daily on July 2, 2016
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Thomas Jefferson's Lives: Biographers and the Battle for History
Robert M. S. McDonald
2019

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