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George Clymer (March 16, 1739 – January 23, 1813) was an American politician, abolitionist and Founding Father of the United States, one of only six founders who signed both the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution. Clymer was among the earliest patriots to advocate for complete independence from Britain.
George Clymer was a businessman and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania who rose to prominence during the American Revolution. He is known to have participated in protests against the Stamp Act and Tea Act.
Feb 18, 2020 · March 2, 2020. George Clymer was one of the first Americans to promote complete separation from Britain. George was a member of the Continental Congress and was among the signers of both the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution.
Jan 28, 2012 · George Clymer (March 16, 1739 – January 23, 1813) was an American politician and Founding Father of the United States. He was one of the first Patriots to advocate complete independence from Britain. As a Pennsylvania representative, Clymer was, along with five others, a signatory of both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.
Sep 18, 2019 · George Clymer, Pennsylvania Clymer was orphaned in 1740, only a year after his birth in Philadelphia. A wealthy uncle reared and informally educated him and advanced him from clerk to full-fledged partner in his mercantile firm, which on his death he bequeathed to his ward.
Jan 19, 2020 · At the Constitutional Convention, Clymer helped to draft, debate and signed the United States Constitution. He is one of only six Founding Fathers who signed both The Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution.
Jan 23, 1813. George Clymer, an orphan at an early age, was reared by a paternal uncle, who gave him a good education. He apprenticed in his uncle's counting room to prepare for a mercantile profession. He was a patriot partisan and leader in the disturbances in Philadelphia resulting from the Tea Act and the Stamp Act, and a Member of the ...
Wilson, James, PA. George Clymer (March 16, 1739 – January 24, 1813) was an American politician, a Republican, a Patriot and one of the Founding Fathers. He was one of the first Patriots to promote and support the idea of complete independence from the throne in Britain.
George Clymer. Clymer, a leading Philadelphia merchant, rendered long years of service to his city, State, and Nation. He signed the Declaration of Independence as well as the Constitution, and applied his commercial acumen to the financial problems of the Colonies and the Confederation.
George Clymer was born in Philadelphia in 1739. His father Christopher Clymer, a sea captain and an Episcopalian, and his mother Deborah Fitzwater, a disowned Quaker, died by 1746. As a result, Clymer was raised by his aunt Hannah Coleman and her husband William Coleman, a wealthy Quaker merchant and one of Penn’s founders and first trustees ...
