My Heroes... Lyman Hall...

He came from a family of means. His father sent him to Yale at age sixteen, and he graduated in four years, after which he pursued being a doctor. He married and immigrated to South Carolina and then Georgia.

How fascinating. Georgia wouldn't send delegates, at first. Dr. Lyman believed in the cause of the republic and received permission to participate in the Continental Congress anyway, though he did not vote. They permitted him to stay because he proposed questions and discussions that forwarded the cause. When Georgia finally sent a delegation, Dr. Lyman was one of the five.

The British confiscated his property while they occupied Georgia. Once Georgia was returned to the republic, Dr. Hall was elected governor. He only served one term and retired. Unfortunately, he passed in his sixty-third year.

Once again, this is a man who established his convictions early and held true to the end.