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Remembering Idaho’s founding fathers and the controversial debate in the road to statehood
IDAHO FALLS – There was a “pensive and awful silence” as John Hancock took pen in hand and became the first of 56 delegates to sign the document Thomas Jefferson and the rest of the committee had drafted. It was Aug. 2, 1776 and after months of debate, the …