Ascent to Greatness - Chapter Eight - Raymond F McNair - 1976

Raymond F McNair

Why did the U.S. think it necessary even to have a national coat of arms? When did America adopt her present Great Seal? At the time when the U.S. declared independence in 1776,it was the prevailing practice in much of the civilized world — in Europe especially — to have a national coat of arms. On the very day the U.S. declared its independence, the Second Continental Congress appointed a committee of three (Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson), "to bring in a device for a seal for the United States of America." - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library