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    Thomas McKean (/mɪkˈkeɪn/; March 19, 1734 – June 24, 1817) was an American lawyer, politician, and Founding Father. During the American Revolution, he...
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    Thomas Howard Kean (/ˈkeɪn/ KAYN; born April 21, 1935) is an American politician, statesman, and academic administrator from the state of New Jersey. A...
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  • Thomas McKean was an American lawyer and politician. Thomas McKean may also refer to: Thomas J. McKean (1810–1870), American engineer, soldier and politician...
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    Declaration of Independence signer Thomas McKean. The county is part of the North Central Pennsylvania region of the state. McKean County comprises the Bradford...
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    Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan (March 31, 1794 – July 9, 1852) was a 19th-century politician and lawyer who served briefly as United States Secretary...
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  • the "Portland/Sold-Out Discipling Movement". McKean's father was a Rear Admiral in the US Navy. McKean has a brother and a sister. He is married and...
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    Thomas Howard Kean Jr. (/ˈkeɪn/ KAYN; born September 5, 1968) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative from New Jersey's 7th congressional...
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  • Thomas McKean High School is a comprehensive public high school located on 301 McKennan's Church Road in unincorporated New Castle County, Delaware, with...
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  • SS Thomas McKean was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Founding Father Thomas McKean, an American lawyer...
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    the latter office until December 17, 1799, when he was succeeded by Thomas McKean. The Whiskey Rebellion and the 1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic...
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    Michael John McKean (/məˈkiːən/; born October 17, 1947) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, composer, singer, and musician known for various...
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    official copy was handwritten by Timothy Matlack). In 1796, signer Thomas McKean disputed that the Declaration had been signed on July 4, pointing out...
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    United States Declaration of Independence (category Works by Thomas Jefferson)
    of the colonial assembly, and a new Conference of Committees under Thomas McKean authorized Pennsylvania's delegates to declare independence on June...
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    decision, which had been prepared by the Committee of Five, which asked Thomas Jefferson to author its first draft. While Jefferson consulted extensively...
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  • Thomas McKean (born 27 October 1963) is a Scottish former middle-distance runner representing Great Britain and Scotland internationally. He was European...
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    Livingston (New York) Thomas McKean (Delaware) Thomas Nelson (Virginia) Edward Rutledge (South Carolina) Roger Sherman (Connecticut) Thomas Stone (Maryland)...
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    Thomas A. McKean is an American autistic author and lecturer. He is a poet, a singer-songwriter, an international speaker and a writer. He is the author...
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    David McKean (born 29 December 1963) is an English artist. His work incorporates drawing, painting, photography, collage, found objects, digital art, and...
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  • Mexico. Born in Pennsylvania, McKean was the grandson of Thomas McKean, the governor of that state. William Wister McKean was appointed midshipman on 30...
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    generally worked in partnership with Thomas McKean from New Castle County and in opposition to George Read. Rodney joined McKean as a delegate to the Stamp Act...
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    gubernatorial election. After Johnston turned down the office, Thomas McKean was elected. McKean served just a few months, resigning in October 1781 after...
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    major influence expanding on the contract theory of government advanced by Thomas Hobbes, his contemporary. Locke advanced the principle of consent of the...
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  • Thomas McKean Pettit (December 26, 1797 – May 30, 1853) was a United States lawyer, politician, and judge who was briefly Director of the United States...
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    during the Philadelphia campaign. In October 1777, Dickinson's friend Thomas McKean appointed him brigadier general of the Delaware Militia, but Dickinson...
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    Gettystown was named as the county seat. On January 22, 1800, Governor Thomas McKean issued an Act of Assembly which formed a new county named Adams with...
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  • Delaware Thomas McKean John Dickinson Nicholas Van Dyke Maryland John Hanson Daniel Carroll Virginia Richard Henry Lee John Banister Thomas Adams John...
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    German immigrants, Valentine Schallus and Frederica Catherina. His brother Thomas Shallus was a mapmaker. He was born a year after his father Valentine immigrated...
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    Thomas Jefferson McKean (August 21, 1810 – April 19, 1870) was an American engineer, soldier, politician, and farmer. A West Point graduate, he fought...
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  • and moderate Republicans, such as those who supported the election of Thomas McKean as governor of Pennsylvania in 1805. However, by the 1810s, the term...
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    final form of the sentence was stylized by Benjamin Franklin, and penned by Thomas Jefferson during the beginning of the Revolutionary War in 1776. It reads:...
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