The Reason an English King wanted to "Kill all the Lawyers."

John Adams--Massachusetts
Samuel Chase--Maryland
Abraham Clark--New Jersey
William Ellery--Rhode Island
Thomas Heyward Jr.--South Carolina
William Hooper--North Carolina
Francis Hopkinson--New Jersey
Samuel Huntington--Connecticut
Thomas Jefferson--Virginia
Thomas Lynch Jr.--South Carolina
Thomas McKean--Delaware
William Paca--Maryland
Robert Treat Paine--Massachusetts
John Penn--North Carolina
George Read--Delaware
George Ross--Pennsylvania
Edward Rutledge--South Carolina
Roger Sherman--Connecticut
James Smith--Pennsylvania
Richard Stockton--New Jersey
Thomas Stone--Maryland
George Walton--Georgia
James Wilson--Pennsylvania
Oliver Wolcott--Connecticut
George Wythe--Virginia

25 out of 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence were lawyers. 

--Bradley A. Coxe is a practicing attorney in Wilmington, NC who specializes in Personal Injury, Car Accidents, Medical Malpractice, Contract and Real Estate disputes and all forms of Civil Litigation.  Please contact him at (910) 772-1678.