 | Alfred Billings Street - Constitutional history - 1859 - 622 pages
...and the meeting of the Legislature. In 1788, he was a member, from the city and county of New York, of the State Convention that ratified the Constitution of the United States, and voted for the ratification. On the llth of January, 1798, he was appointed, by the Legislature of New... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1874 - 706 pages
...Lewisburg, and make a speech detailing the circumstances of its capture. Captain Wilson was a member of the State Convention that ratified the Constitution of the United States on the i2th of December, 1787. His certificate of membership of the order of the Cincinnati, of this... | |
 | New Hampshire - 1883 - 432 pages
...in 1781. In 1782 he accepted the position of attorney-general for the state, holding it till 1786, when he was elected president of the slate, holding...president of the state. President Washington, however, in organi/.ing the judiciary, appointed him judge of the Federal District Court of New Hampshire, which... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - America - 1887 - 834 pages
...chief justice of the superior court, lieutenant-governor of the state, and governor in 1784-'6. In 1788 he was president of the State convention that ratified the constitution of the United States. Yale gave him the degree of LL. D. in 1779. — His son, Roger, governor of Connecticut, b. in Lyme,... | |
 | New York (State) - 1899 - 646 pages
...cannons and balls ; assisted in erecting the first powder mill in Connecticut in 1776 ; and was a member of the State Convention that ratified the Constitution of the United States. — Wm. Elderkin Leffingwell. VINE ELDERKIN : Born in Windham, Conn., Sept. n, 1745 ; died in Albany,... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - America - 1900 - 798 pages
...the founding of the College of phvsicians, of which he was one of the first censors, tie was a member of the State convention that ratified the constitution of the United States in 1787, and of that for forming a state constitution in the same year, in which he endeavored to procure... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson, John Howard Brown - United States - 1904 - 540 pages
...and major-general in 1808. He was a representative in the state legislature, 1781-S9, and as a member of the state convention that ratified the constitution of the United States in 1788 he was conspicuous in declining to change his course as first marked out by his constituents... | |
 | Delaware - 1911 - 528 pages
...History of Delaware." Vol. Ill, p. 895. After the war he settled at Smyrna, Delaware. He was a member of the State Convention that ratified the Constitution of the United States in 1787, was a member and Speaker of the Delaware Legislature, for six years was a privy councillor,... | |
 | John Steele - North Carolina - 1924 - 506 pages
...November 24, 1789. Steele was not in the Assembly at the time, but he was in Fayetteville as a member of the State convention that ratified the Constitution of the United States, November 21. He very probably influenced the choice of the two United States Senators chosen, Samuel... | |
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