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Who was the chief author of the declaration?

Benjamin Franklin.
Thomas Jefferson
John Hancock
King George III

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Thomas Jefferson

a spokesman for democracy, was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and the third President of the United States (1801–1809).
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