7. Resolved that provision be made for the admission of new States into the Union.

8. Resolved the rule for naturalization ought to be the same in every State.

9. Resolved that a Citizen of one State committing an offense in another State of the Union, shall be deemed guilty of the same offense as if it had been committed by a Citizen of the State in which the offense was committed.

PART VIII

BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON THE MEMBERS

OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION1

ABRAHAM BALDWIN, Ga., 1754-1807. Minister; Graduate of Yale, 1772; Chaplain in the Revolutionary Army; Member of the State Legislature, 1784; Member of the Confederation Congress, 1786-1788; U. S. Congressman, 1789-1799; United States Senator, 1799-1807.

RICHARD BASSETT, Del., (d. 1815) Lawyer; United States Senator, 1789-1793; Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas of the State of Delaware, 1793-1798; Governor of Delaware, 1799-1801; 1801midnight appointee of Adams as United States Circuit Judge.

GUNNING, BEDFORD, Del., 1747-1812. Lawyer; Aide-de-Camp to Washington; Delegate to the Confederation Congress 1783-1786; Attorney-General of Delaware; United States District Judge for Dela

ware.

JOHN BLAIR, Va., 1732-1800. Lawyer; Judge of the Va. Court of Appeals, 1777-1780; Judge of the Va. High Court of Chancery; Associate Justice in the United States Supreme Court, 1789-1796.

WILLIAM BLOUNT, N. C., 1749-1800. Land speculator; Member of the North Carolina Legislature; Member of the Confederation Congress, 1783-1784; Governor of the Territory of the United States south of the Ohio, 1790-1796; United States Senator from Tennessee, 17961798; State Senator in Tennessee, 1798-1800.

DAVID BREARLEY, N. J., 1745-1790. Lawyer; Member of the army of the Revolution; Chief Justice of New Jersey, 1779-1789; United States District Judge, 1789-1790.

JACOB BROOM, Del. Owner of stock in Cotton Mills and in the Insurance Company of North America; Postmaster at Wilmington, Del.

PIERCE, BUTLER, S. C., 1744-1822. Slaveholder; Delegate to the Confederation Congress, 1787; Stockholder and Director of the First United States Bank; United States Senator from South Carolina, 17891796 and 1802-1804.

1Adapted by permission from Lowrey, American Constitutional History and Ideals. Other facts may be found in the following books: Elliott, Biographical Story of the Constitution; Farrand, Framing of the Constitution; Beard, Economic Interpretation of the Constitution.

DANIEL CARROLL, Md. Owner of the present site of Washington, D. C.; United States Congressman, 1789-1791; Commissioner for the laying out of the District of Columbia.

GEORGE CLYMER, Pa., 1739-1813. Merchant; 1775, Continental Treasurer; Member of the Continental Congress, 1776, 1777. 1780; Signer of the Declaration of Independence; Congressman, 1789-1791; Collector of Internal Revenue, 1791-1793.

WILLIAM R. DAVIE, N. C., 1756-1820. Lawyer; Commissary General of the Southern Army; Ambassador to France, 1799; Special Commissioner to negotiate with the Tuscaroras.

JONATHAN DAYTON, N. J., 1760-1824. Land speculator; Member of the Revolutionary Army; Member and Speaker of the State Legislature; Congressman, 1791-1799; Speaker of the House of Representatives, 1795-1799; United States Senator, 1799-1805.

JOHN DICKINSON, Del., 1732-1808. Lawyer; Member of the Stamp Act Congress; Member of the First Continental Congress; Member of the Revolutionary Army; President of Delaware, 1781; President of Pennsylvania, 1782-1785.

OLIVER ELLSWORTH, Conn., 1745-1807. Lawyer: Delegate to the Confederation Congress; Member of the Governor's Council, 1784; Judge of the Conn. Supreme Court, 1784-1787; United States Senator, 1789-1796; Chief Justice Supreme Court of the U. S., 1796-1799; Envoy Extraordinary to France, 1799.

WILLIAM FEW, Ga. Lawyer and farmer; worth about $100,000; United States Senator, 1789-1793; Commissioner of Loans, 1802-1810; moved to New York State in 1799; Member of the New York Legislature, 1802-1805.

THOMAS FITZSIMMONS, Pa. Merchant; Director of the Bank of North America; Congressman, 1789-1795.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Pa., 1706-1790. Statesman; known all over the world as a scientist and philosopher; 1753, Deputy Postmaster General of the British Colonies; Member of the Albany Congress, 1754; Agent for Pennsylvania in London, England, 1757-1762 and from 1764 to the Revolution; Signer of the Declaration of Independence; Minister or Commissioner from the United States to France, 1776-1785; Negotiated and signed treaty of peace with Great Britain, 1782-1783; President of Pennsylvania, 1785-1787; Philanthropist.

ELBRIDGE GERRY, Mass., 1744-1814. Merchant; Member Mass. Colonial House of Representatives 1772-1775; Delegate to the Continental and Confederate Congresses, 1776-1780 and 1783-1785; Signer of the Declaration of Independence; Congressman, 1789-1793; Special Com

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missioner to France, 1797; Governor of Massachusetts, 1810 and 1811; Vice-President of the U. S., 1813-14; believed that the United States had too much democracy.

NICHOLAS GILMAN, N. H., 1755-1814. Public Serviceman; Adjutant General during the Revolution; Delegate to Confederation Congress, 1786-88; Congressman, 1789-1797; United States Senator, 18051814.

NATHANIEL GORHAM, Mass. Merchant and land speculator; owned $1,000,000 worth of western lands; owned twenty shares of stock in the First United States Bank; opposed to any property qualifications for voting.

ALEXANDER HAMILTON, N. Y., 1757-1804. Lawyer; most brilliant man in the convention; believed in aristocracy; member of Washington's staff; Member of Confederation Congress, 1782-1783; author of the Federalist; Secretary of the Treasury, 1789-1795; Inspector General of the U. S. Army, 1798.

WILLIAM C. HOUSTON, N. J. Professor; Clerk of the Supreme Court of New Jersey; believed in democracy; took little part in the convention.

WILLIAM HOUSTON, Ga. Lawyer; Son of a royalist; supported the Constitution but failed to sign the document.

JARED INGERSOLL, Pa., 1749-1822. Lawyer; Member of Continental Congress, 1780-1781; Attorney General of Pennsylvania; U. S. District Attorney for Eastern Pennsylvania; defeated as Federalist candidate for Vice-President in 1812.

DANIEL of ST. THOMAS JENIFER, Md. Slaveholder. (d. 1790.) WILLIAM S. JOHNSON, Conn., 1727-1819. Lawyer; Conn. delegate to the Stamp Act Congress; London agent of the Colony 17661771; Judge of the Conn. Supreme Court 1772-1774; conscientious objector during the Revolution; Member of the Confederation Congress, 1784-1787; United States Senator, 1789-1791; President of Columbia College, 1791-1800.

RUFUS KING, Mass., 1755-1827. Public Serviceman and business man; Member of Massachusetts Legislature; Delegate to Continental Congress; 1789-1796 United States Senator from New York; Minister to England, 1796-1803; Federalist candidate for Vice-President, 1804; Federalist candidate for Governor of New York, 1815; last Federalist candidate for the Presidency, 1816; United States Senator from New York, 1813-1825; Minister to England, 1825-1826.

JOHN LANGDON, N. H., 1741-1819. Merchant; Delegate to Continental Congress, 1775, 1776, 1783; member of the Revolutionary army,