Which of the following colonial figures served as the President of the College of New Jersey, which eventually became Princeton, and was the only active clergyman to sign the Declaration of Independence?

Witherspoon was 45 years old when he left Scotland to go to New Jersey to head up the Presbyterian College of New Jersey. He became more and more involved in the fight for independence, and served in the Continental Congress from June 1777 until November 1784 and was one of its most influential members.

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