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William Bingham (March 8, 1752 – February 7, 1804) was an American statesman from Philadelphia. He was a delegate for Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress from 1786 to 1788 and served in the United States Senate from 1795 to 1801. [1]
Jun 7, 2017 · The last biography of him (and the only one I could find) was published in 1969. [2] Yet Bingham played a pivotal role in the success of the Revolution at a young age and more than merely rubbed elbows with the key figures of the Revolution and later the founding era.
In 1781 he was the key founder and director of the Bank of North America, the first bank in the country. William and Anne Bingham moved to England for most of the 1780s; from here William invested much of his wealth in land speculation, mostly in New York and Maine.
WILLIAM BINGHAM, EIGHTEENTH CENTURY MAGNATE When William Bingham died in 1804, he was generally con sidered one of the wealthiest men of his time. Although thirty-five years earlier he had come into his share of his father's estate, which had been divided between his mother and her four living children, he had acquired the greater part of his ...
William Bingham was born in 1752, the fourth of five children born to William and Mary (Stamper) Bingham of Philadelphia. William the elder was a merchant and a veteran of the French and Indian War. The younger William Bingham attended the College of Philadelphia, from which he graduated in 1768.
Bingham, William. (1752-1804) was a wealthy and influential Philadelphia banker and a financier during the Revolutionary War, a United States Senator, and an owner of great tracts of land in Maine, once totaling two million acres. He was also the founder of the country’s first Bank in 1781.
William Bingham was a merchant, landowner, statesman, and U.S. senator during the Federalist era. He married Anne Willing on 26 October 1780. Includes bibliographical references (pages 531-545) 1. Delaware Bay -- 3. First days in Martinique -- 8. Anne Willing -- 11. Mr. and Mrs. Bingham of Cavendish Square -- 20.
Pennsylvania Politics: Elected, Federalist, Pennsylvania State House of Representatives 1790-1791; elected, 37th Speaker of the House on December 8, 1790. First House Speaker, after the 1790 Constitutional Convention created a bicameral legislature, where both the House and Senate comprised the General Assembly.
William Bingham was born on April 8, 1752 to William and Mary Stamper Bingham in Philadelphia. At the age of sixteen he graduated with honors from the University of Pennsylvania, class of 1768. In 1770, Bingham served as British Consul at St. Pierre, Martinique.
Dec 9, 2009 · Appendices examine the genealogy of the Baring, Bingham, and Willing families; the impact of these banking pioneers on English aristocracy; the life of Anne Willing Bingham; and information on locations featured in the book, among other topics.
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