Faces for the forty-eight
16 of the men who signed the Articles already have a portrait master on file — nearly all of them carried over from the Declaration. The remaining 32 hold an empty chair. Below each of them is every archival file the Commons holds under his name, at its real pixel size, with the source page attached: pick one, and it can be pressed into a master. Nothing on this site is a generated likeness. Candidates via Wikidata P18 + Wikimedia Commons search/categories → imageinfo, retrieved 2026-08-23.
- On the roll
- 48
- Master on file
- 16
- Candidate ≥ 1200px
- 30
No face, and no written likeness — swept 2026-08-23, the record is silent on his person.
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His stature was about five feet nine inches.
In his person he was rather slender than stout.
His hair was of a light-brown, and his eyes hazel.
The contour of his face was not striking; nor were his features, which were small, remarkable for symmetry; but his countenance was pleasing, and his figure, though not commanding, was neither inelegant nor ungraceful.
William Hooper, quoted by R. D. W. Connor · "Cornelius Harnett: The Pride of the Cape Fear", The North Carolina Booklet 5:3 (1906), pp. 171–201 · source · retrieved 2026-08-23 
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