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-In 1781 Carroll was elected into the Continental Congress.
-In Carroll first year at the Continental Congress he spoke over 20 times and served on the Committee of Postponed Matters.
-Helped George Washington promote the Patowmack Company, with the plan of canalizing the Potomac River.
-In 1789 won a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
-In 1791 George Washington named Carroll one of three commissioners of District of Columbia.

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1. In 1789, he was a Presidential elector, then appointed by Washington as Associate Justice of the United States. Supreme Courts of Justice
2. He was one of the most influential delegates to the Constitutional Convention, where he held a moderate nationalist stance and chaired the Detail Committee, attended all the meetings, spoke frequently and efficiently, and served on five committees.
3. He chaired a Stamp Act Congress committee that drafted a petition to the House of Lords.
4. Rutledge was Edward Rutledge's elder brother, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
5. The outspoken opposition of Rutledge to Jay's Treaty (1794), and the intermittent mental illness he had suffered since his wife's death in 1792, caused his appointment to be rejected by the Federalist-dominated Senate and his public career to end.

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5 interesting fact
- Born in 1723 of Swedish and English descent at Coates Retirement (now Ellerslie) estate, near Port Tobacco in Charles County
- As a young man, Jenifer served as agent and receiver-general for the last two proprietors of Maryland.
- He served as president of the Maryland council of safety (1775-77), then as president of the first state senate (1777-80).
- Despite his association with conservative proprietary politics, Jenifer supported the Revolutionary movement, albeit at first reluctantly.
- He died at the age of 66 or 67 at Annapolis in 1790. The exact location of his grave, possibly at Ellerslie estate, is unknown.

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1. Founder and First President of the College of William and Mary.
2. He was an active patriot who signed many pledges to help the economy.
3. In the 1780´s Blair tried backing up a new framework of government
4. 1789 John was named an associate justice of the Supreme Court.
5. John Blair had presented and helped with many important cases in the Supreme Court.

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1. Initially opposed the Bill of Rights in 1789, he considered the amendments unnecessary and potentially harmful
2. He was Princeton's first graduate student
3. Thanks to the very detailed notes he took during the convention historians are able to have good understanding of what happened during those 100 days
4. Because of his major contributions he is known as the Father of the Constitution as well as the Bill of Rights
5. One of the main authors of the Federalists Papers, wrote the famous quote "If men were angels, no government would be necessary"

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-He was an officer in the revolutionary war
-He was one of the largest slave holders in all of the United States
-He introduced and defended the Fugitive Slave Clause which basically says if you find a slave that has fled from his master you must return him to his/her master
-He used to be employed in the British army
-He moved form ireland to britain to south carolina throughout his life

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-Charles Pinckney was born on October 26, 1757 in Charleston, South Carolina and was a former US Senate member
- During the American Revolution he was captured and held prisoner by the British
-Pinckney's proposals named the Pinckney Plan was largely incorporated into the Federal Constitution in 1787.
- At the age of 21 years old Charles Pinckney began practicing law and enlisted in the militia to fight in the Revolutionary war.
His died on October 29, 1824 at the age of 67 and is buried in Saint Phillip's Episcopal Church in his hometown of Charleston, South Carolina

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-William Few was born in 1748. His family came from England to Pennsylvania in the 1680s, but his dad moved to Maryland, he got married and settled on a farm near Baltimore.
-In 1796 he became a federal judge for the Georgia circuit. He resigned his judgeship in 1799 at the age of 52 after that he moved to New York City.
-His brother was hung for opposing the royal governor.
-He served 4 years in the legislature and then as inspector of prisons, alderman, and U.S. commissioner of loans.
-He was supposed to be buried in the yard of the local Reformed Dutch Church, his body was later reinterred at St. Paul's Church in Augusta, GA.

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- Martin left the Constitutional Convention early because he believed that the Convention violated the state's rights.
-He owned 6 slaves of his own, however opposed to including slaves in determining representation, which was odd because including slaves would give more power to slave states.
-He considered slave trading to be "America's republican ideals".
- Although born in New Jersey, he was a delegate to Maryland, and was the defender of Aaron Burr, Samuel Chase, the poor, the rich, and slaves.
-As a very anti- federalist, he disliked the idea of a strong central government, so he never signed the Constitution.

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- At the age of 15 he was apprenticed but quit in 1759 to start a business
- Though he did not have formal legal training he began his judicial career as a judge for the Middlesex county court of common pleas
- he was a member of the continental congress and was there president from 1786 to 1787
- Gorham attended every session of the constitutional convention and had a very influential role
- Gorham was not a part of the government he had created and instead made very unfortunate economic decisions that drove him broke and no longer a part of the rich Boston society

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-  A delegate to the Congress of Confederation, Constitutional Convention, and was a signer of the United States Constitution.
- Bedford was an active abolitionist in his home state of Delaware and was a leading advocate against slavery.
- Served as a leading hand next to George Washington when we was assigned to serve in the Continental Army.
- He spoke freely about his opinions and critical ideas during the Constitutional Convention and was also a member of the committee that drafted the Great Compromise.
- In 1789 George Washington designated him as federal district judge for his state that he was to occupy for the rest of his life.

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- George Washington was born in 1732 at Wakefield Plantation, VA.
- He supported the initial protests against British policies; took an active part in the nonimportation movement in Virginia; and, partially because of his military experience, became a Whig Leader.
- Washington represented Virginia at the first and second Continental Congresses.
- In 1775, Congress appointed him as Commander of the Continental Army.
- In 1788, the electoral college unanimously chose Washington as the First President of the United States.

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-Attended the convention that adopted Virginia's first state constitution in 1776 and was the convention's youngest member at age 23
-On May 29, 1787, Edmund Randolph presented the Virginia Plan for creating a new government
-He sat on the Committee of Detail that prepared a draft of the Constitution but Randolph declined to sign
-Under President Washington, Edmund Randolph became Attorney General of the United States
-In 1813, at age 60 and suffering from paralysis, Randolph died while visiting Nathaniel Burwell at Carter Hall

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- Born and raised in Connecticut, and would later be a Yale College graduate in 1772.
- Baldwin was an American minister, founding father, Patriot, and politician.
- After the Revolutionary War, he became a lawyer.
- Baldwin founded the University of Georgia after moving there in the mid 1780s.
- Baldwin attended the Constitutional Convention after being absent for weeks.
- Abraham Baldwin died from illness at the age of 53.

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-In 1776 when he was serving in the militia, along with John Jay and Robert R. Livingston he drafted the first constitution of the state.
- In 1777-78 Morris sat in the legislature and in 1778-79 in the Continental Congress where he was the youngest and one of the most brilliant members.
- During the times 1777-79 he signed the Articles of Confederation and drafted instructions for Benjamin Franklin also for the people partially involved for the treaty ending the War for Independence
-In 1781 he became the principal assistant to Robert Morris, Superintendent of Finance for the United States. He held the position for 4 years
-In 1792 he was appointed Minister to France by Washington

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- In 1760, he served in the assembly of the Three Lower Counties (Delaware), where he held the speakership.
- He wrote The Late Regulations Respecting the British Colonies... Considered, which was an influential pamphlet urging Americans to seek repeal of the act by pressuring British merchants.
- During 1767-1768, he wrote several series of newspaper articles called "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania".
- In 1774 he briefly sat in the First Continental Congress as a representative from Pennsylvania where he authored four of the six documents published by Congress in 1774
- Throughout 1775 he chaired a Philadelphia committee of safety and defense and held a colonelcy in the first battalion recruited in Philadelphia to defend the city.

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- When the War for Independence broke out, Paterson joined the vanguard of the New Jersey patriots. He served in the provincial congress (1775-76), the constitutional convention (1776), legislative council (1776-77), and council of safety (1777). During the last year, he also held a militia commission.
- From 1776 to 1783 he was attorney general of New Jersey, a task that occupied so much of his time that it prevented him from accepting election to the Continental Congress in 1780.
- In 1789 Paterson was elected to the U.S. Senate (1789-90), where he played a pivotal role in drafting the Judiciary Act of 1789.
- His next position was governor of his state (1790-93).
- During this time, he began work on the volume later published as Laws of the State of New Jersey (1800) and began to revise the rules and practices of the chancery and common law courts.
- During the years 1793-1806, Paterson served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

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-In 1759, George Mason was elected in to the Virginia House of Burgesses, and wrote the opening letter to colonists during the Stamp Act in 1765.
-In 1776 Mason framed Virginia's Declaration of Rights which ultimately led to being a model for Jefferson when he created the Declaration of Independence.
-Unfortunately, Mason was becoming more and more against the conduct of public affairs and retired in the early 1780's.
-Mason surprised everyone when he didn't sign the document since he was one of the main 5 speakers at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787.
-His main worries of not signing were eventually solved by being put into the Bill of Rights and the 11th amendment. (Senate being too powerful and the federal judiciary destroying the state judiciary.)

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-Mercer joined the Virginia Regiment in 1776 when he was 17 years old.
-He studied law at the College of William and Mary, and shortly after, he rejoined the army.
-At 28 years old, Mercer joined the Constitutional Convention as Maryland's delegate and he was the second youngest delegate there.
-During the convention, he spoke and voted against the Constitution, and he later left the convention with another delegate of Maryland, before the meeting was over.
-Afterwards, Mercer continued being a delegate for Maryland and later, he would be a representative of the House of Representatives.

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- He attended the First Continental Congress as the 2nd youngest member, at the age of 28.
- In 1787 Jay authored three of the articles now collectively called "The Federalist", in which he, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton argued effectively in support of the ratification of the new Federal Constitution
- In 1777 he attended the New York constitutional convention, and was selected to draft that constitution. He then served a the first Chief Justice of the state.
- He was a very popular Governor who fought for many political reforms including judicial reform, penal reform and the abolition of slavery.
- In 1789, Washington appointed him Chief Justice to the Supreme Court under the new federal constitution.

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1 -In Continental Congress, he earned a reputation for a "brilliant speaker and an early opponent of slavery."
2 -He was one of the youngest delegates at Philadelphia and he became a figure in the national caucus.
3 -King smoothed relations between the French and the British in wars of the French Revolution.
4 -King became director of the First Bank of the United States and led opposition to the establishment of the Second Bank of the United States.
5 -As Senate, he denounced the Missouri Compromise and established compensated emancipation and colonization for slaves.

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-A 4th president of the United States
-Known as the Father of the Constitution for playing a crucial part in its formation
-Were drafting the 10th Amendment that would become the Bill of Rights.
-Madison and Thomas Jefferson were the ones who found Democratic-Republican Party
-Madison once enrolled in Princeton University as a first youngest graduate student
-Nickname: "America's first graduate student"

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- Passed the bar exam in 1772, went to Harvard for college education
- Held public office positions for most of his adult life
- Was elected governor of Massachusetts in 1800
- Declined a seat at the Massachusetts supreme court, and strongly opposed war
- Was an avid Federalist and strongly supported George Washington's campaign

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- Was the first American Law professor, a noted classics scholar, and a Virginia judge.
- Attended Williams & Mary College
- He argued both publicly and privately against slavery
- He bolstered John Locke's assertion of the natural rights of man
- He emphasized reason and individualism

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5 facts about Jonathan Dayton
1. He spoke with moderate frequency during the debates and, though objecting to some provisions of the Constitution, signed it.
2. After sitting in the Continental Congress in 1788, Dayton became a foremost Federalist legislator in the new government.
3. Although elected as a representative, he did not serve in the First Congress in 1789, preferring instead to become a member of the New Jersey council and speaker of the state assembly
4. In personal matters Dayton purchased Boxwood Hall in 1795 as his home in Elizabethtown and resided there until his death
5. He supported the Louisiana Purchase (1803) and, in conformance with his Federalist views, opposed the repeal of the Judiciary Act of 1801.