...1823 to 1829 — as a member of the House of Representatives at Washington, and had frequently been a member of the State Legislature. He was a member of the late State Convention, to revise the Constitution of .New Hampshire. Oct. 11. — In Boston, Barnabas...

...commanded in the northern division of the army. He was also at the seige of Yorktown. He was elected a member of the convention, which formed the constitution of the state. in 1777, and was for some years a member of the state senate. George Clinton, brother of James, and...

...by the venerable Thomas Jefferson, who was also one of the committee. After the peace, Roger Sherman was a member of the convention which formed the constitution of the United States ; and he was chosen a representative from this state to the first congress under this...

...be. came a self-taught scholar, and rose to a high eminence as a lawyer and statesman. Roger Sherman was a member of the convention which formed the constitution of the United States, and was chosen a representative to the first Congress under this constitution. He was...

...commanded in the northern division of the army. He was also at the seige of Yorktown. He was elected a member of the convention, which formed the constitution of the state, in 1777, and was for some years a member of the state senate. George Clinton, brother of James, and...

...extensive practice, he was appointed chief justice of the supreme court of Massachusetts. In 1780, he was a member of the convention which formed the constitution of the state, and of the convention which accepted the federal constitution. He was a powerful speaker, without a riral...

...This gentleman was a native of Connecticut, but removed to Georgia soon after the peace of 1783, and Was a member of the convention which formed the constitution of the United States, and one of those who signed it. Mr. Skinner, was probably Thompson J. Skinner, for a...

...until the spring of 1820, when he resigned it, upon being elected a member of the General Assembly. He was a member of the Convention which formed the Constitution of the State, in 1818. He was a Representative of the town of Salisbury, in the General Assembly, in the years 1821,...

...a statesman, and president of the University of Georgia, was graduated at Yale College, in 1772. He was a member of the Convention which formed the constitution of the United States, in 1787, and held a seat successively in both houses of Congress. He died at Washington,...

...Harvard college. He pursued the profession of the law, and established himself in his native town. Taking an early and active part in the revolutionary...which formed the constitution of the United States. Subsequently he was senator to congress, and for eleven years, at different periods, chief magistrate...