John Witherspoon Statue Tank Top

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John Witherspoon was the the only clergyman to sign the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1776. Witherspoon was born on February 5, 1722, in Scotland, and came to America in 1768 to be president of the College of New Jersey. He loved America and as a delegate to the Continental Congress he worked with colonists to established a new country. On November 15, 1794, Witherspoon died in Princeton.

This bronze statue of Witherspoon was made by William Couper in 1922 to 1923 and is located at the intersection of Connecticut Avenue and N Street, a block south of Dupont Circle, in Washington, DC.

I enjoy photography and writing, and sometimes think of myself as a photojournalist. If there is a story to be told with a photograph, I tell it. As a longtime resident of Washington, DC, a lot of my photographs are of this area, and I enjoy writing in the description something about the shot -- it could be a short statement about an equestrian statue in the middle of a park, or a more intimate tale of the mausoleum where Abraham Lincoln's son, Willie, was entombed for the remaining three years of Lincoln's presidency after the boy's death. These photographs are contained in the aptly named "Washington DC" Collection. In addition to "WDC" there are eight other Collections on this page, and two of my favorites are "Paintings" and...