death_date birth_date signature residence term_end death_place profession term_start spouse image name caption resting_place predecessor birth_place party office successor religion article_title
24 june 1817 19 march 1734 thomas mckean signature.svg new castle , delaware philadelphia , pennsylvania december 4 , 1781 february 1 , 1783 november 7 , 20 1776 october 20 , 1777 , 1808 december 17 , 1799 november philadelphia , pennsylvania lawyer december 10 , 1781 december 17 , 1777 august 2 , 17 1774 september 22 , 1777 , 1799 july 28 , 1777 july mary borden sarah armitage thomas mckean by charles willson peale.jpg thomas mckean portrait by charles willson peale laurel hill cemetery , philadelphia thomas mifflin benjamin chew samuel huntington john mckinly new london township , pennsylvania federalist democratic-republican 2nd of the continental congress continental congressman from delaware president of governor delaware of pennsylvania chief justice of pennsylvania president simon snyder edward shippen john hanson george read presbyterian thomas mckean

thomas mckean

thomas mckean -lrb- march 19 , 1734 -- june 24 , 1817 -rrb- 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 .
