That year he was elected a delegate to the Assembly, and was reelected for seventeen years despite a six year residence outside the commonwealth. He served as a trustee of the provincial loan office. In the year of 1775 he was the delegate for the Delaware Stamp Act Congress in New York. McKean also served on the national council throughout the Revolutionary War. In 1787 he attended the ratifying convention of Pennsylvania. In 1789 McKean played a role in amending the constitution of Pennsylvania. In 1799 he was elected governor of Pennsylvania on the Federalist ticket. Political enemies tried to impeach him but were unable to prove any wrongdoing. He filled that office by popular reelection for nine years, retiring in 1812. [1.] Thomas Mckean was the last member of the Second Continental Congress to sign the declaration of Independance. He was a delegate to the Continental Congress from 177481. He was also the Chief of Justice and Governor of Pennsylvania from 17991812. He retired from politics in 1812 and died at the age of 83 in 1817.[3.] I personally chose Thomas McKean because everybody else was choosing all of the big name guys such as John Hancock. Everybody already knows his story so i thought it would be interesting to study and write this report about some who nobody really knows and talks about. It’s these kinds of circumstances when you end up finding more interesting facts about the time period just because its from a completely different point of view. Also when i watched the movie 1776 in class he just really seemed like an interesting character. He seems like a guy who is straight to the point and pretty stearn and serious, which kind of reminds me of my dad. So that kinda …show more content…
He actually lived a very long and successful life and it seemed like in the movie they really tried to portray that. But still in the beginning Pennsylvania did not want to be independent, i think they were more or less utterly intimidated instead of like fully rejecting independence. But still after a little convincing they decided upon voting for independence. Without his changing of mind the future of The United States of America could have been drastically altered.
On the grand scale though i thought the movie really was not historically accurate. I feel like it did not take them that long to decide on independance. Also some of the minor events i'm positive did not happen. But i'm sure they meant to do that so that the movie was more entertaining for the general public and not just the history buffs. But they made sure to incorporate enough real people and enough real events to i guess somewhat consider some of it accurate but not as a whole