GWINNETT, BUTTON (c. American mer chant, patriot and signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born in Gloucester, England, probably in 1735, and removed to the Colony of Georgia in America sometime before 1765. On Feb. 2, 1776, he was elected a delegate from that colony to the Continental Congress, and as such signed the Declaration of Independence. His name is known to-day chiefly because his autographs are of extreme rarity, and collectors of the signers have forced their value to a high figure. Returning to Georgia he was a member of the convention to frame a new constitution for the State and speaker of the assembly. He was mortally wounded in a duel with Gen. Lachlan McIntosh, and died at his home on St. Catherine's island on May 19, See C. F. Jenkins, Button Gwinnett (1926).