 | Edward Eggleston - United States - 1888 - 450 pages
...During the Revolution he was a member of the Virginia Legislature, and later a member of Congress. He was a member of the convention that framed the Constitution of the United States, and one of the ablest advocates of its adoption. He was Secretary of State in Jefferson's... | |
 | Edward Eggleston - United States - 1899 - 452 pages
...During the Revolution he was a member of the Virginia Legislature, and later a member of Congress. He was a member of the convention that framed the Constitution of the United States, and one of the ablest advocates of its adoption. He was Secretary of State in Jefferson's... | |
 | Thomas Benjamin Neely - Methodism - 1892 - 472 pages
...prominent Methodist, but he was also one of the distinguished citizens of the State of Delaware. In 1787 he was a member of the Convention that framed the Constitution of the United States. Subsequently he was a member of the United States Congress and Governor of the State... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 566 pages
...to remedy the defects of early training. Political disappointment drove him in 1849 to California. He was a member of the convention that framed the constitution of that State, and he afterwards served in the legislature. The Democratic party in California, owing... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson - United States - 1894 - 794 pages
...State constitution in 1779. He was a member of the Massachusetts Senate from 1780 to 1789. In 1787 he was a member of the convention that framed the Constitution of the United States. He was a Federalist US Senator from 1789 to 1796, and Governor of Massachusetts... | |
 | William Thomas Davis - Lawyers - 1895 - 854 pages
...was rejected by Governor Bernard. In 1770 he was admitted to the Council andserved seventeen years. He was a member of the Convention that framed the Constitution of Massachusetts in 1779, and in 1781 was appointed by Governor Hancock chief justice of the Court of... | |
 | Daughters of the American Revolution - United States - 1897 - 430 pages
...Lydia Taylor, his wife. Noah Worcester at the first alarm raised a company and marched to Cambridge. He was a member of the convention that framed the Constitution of New Hampshire. Jesse Worcester when fifteen joined the expedition to Ticon.. MRS. GAZELENE LAMAR ELLIS.... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson - United States - 1897 - 796 pages
...State constitution in 1779. He was a member of the Massachusetts Senate from 1780 to 1789. In 1787 he was a member of the convention that framed the Constitution of the United States. He was a Federalist US Senator from 1789 to 1796, and Governor of Massachusetts... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson - United States - 1897 - 802 pages
...State constitution in 1779. He was a member of the Massachusetts Senate from 1780 to 1789. In 1787 he was a member of the convention that framed the Constitution of the United States. He was a Federalist US Senator from 1789 to 1796, and Governor of Massachusetts... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - America - 1901 - 402 pages
...graduation at Harvard in 1775, he studied law, was admitted to the bar, practising in his native town. He was a member of the convention that framed the constitution of Massachusetts in 1780, served in the legislature from 1788 until 1803. was speaker of the house from... | |
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1882 he first examined the falls of the Missouri; and at once founded the City of Great Falls. In 1889 he was a member of the convention that framed the Constitution of Montana. In 1891 he was elected state senator of Montana; and in 1901-03 he was United... 
