John Hancock was the first and third governor of the Commonweath of Massachusetts and president of the Second Continental Congress, well as a signer of the Articles of Confederation and the Declaration of Independence. His large, elegant signature on the Declaration is so famous that "to sign one's John Hancock" is a synonym for one's signature. He was born January 23, 1737. The John Hancock Life Insurance Co was named in his honor during the 1860s.
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