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Here are the Top Four Best Places to Start:

google.com/unclesam. This site searches governmental sites only, thereby narrowing your search results to extremely reliable resources.

Type in your person's full name, and the word "biography".

     e.g., Edmund Randolph biography

Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition - 2002, an online version of the print encyclopedia, from respected Columbia University.

Search "Full Text".

From Revolution to Reconstruction. The material comes from the United States Information Agency publications. Website created by the Department of Humanities Computing, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

Contains many (but not all) of the Early American biographies.

Colonial Hall: Biographies of America's Founding Fathers

Contains biographies of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the U. S. Constitution.