page_title: Thomas McKean
section_title: Early life and family
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas McKean / Early life and family
caption_attribution_description: English: Special Ambassador appointed by the Queen-Regent of Spain for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.
context_page_description: Thomas McKean was an American lawyer and politician from New Castle, in New Castle County, Delaware and Philadelphia. During the American Revolution he was a delegate to the Continental Congress where he signed the United States Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation. McKean served as a President of Congress. He was at various times a member of the Federalist and Democratic-Republican parties. McKean served as President of Delaware, Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, and Governor of Pennsylvania. He is also known for holding copious public positions.
context_section_description: Thomas McKean was born in Pennsylvania in 1734 to William McKean and Letitia Finney. His father was a tavern-keeper in New London and both his parents were Irish-born who came to Pennsylvania as children from Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland.
  Mary Borden was his first wife. They married in 1763, and lived at 22 The Strand in New Castle, Delaware. They had six children: Joseph, Robert, Elizabeth, Letitia, Mary, and Anne. Mary Borden McKean died in 1773 and is buried at Immanuel Episcopal Church in New Castle. Letitia McKean married Dr. George Buchanan and was the mother of CS Admiral Franklin Buchanan.
  Sarah Armitage was McKean's second wife. They married in 1774, lived at the northeast corner of 3rd and Pine Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and had four children, Sarah, Thomas, Sophia, and Maria. They were members of the New Castle Presbyterian Church in New Castle and the First Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia. McKean's daughter Sarah married Spanish diplomat Carlos Martínez de Irujo, 1st Marquis of Casa Irujo; their son, Carlos Martínez de Irujo y McKean, would later become Prime Minister of Spain.
caption: McKean's great-grandson, Carlos Martínez de Irujo, 8th Duke of Sotomayor
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