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James Wilson (Founding Father) James Wilson (September 14, 1742 – August 21, 1798) was a Scottish-born American Founding Father, legal scholar, jurist, and statesman who served as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1789 to 1798. Wilson was elected twice to the Continental Congress, was a signatory of the Declaration ...
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- September 14, 1742, Carskerdo Farm, Fife, Scotland, Great Britain
- Bushrod Washington
James Wilson, (born Sept. 14, 1742, Fife, Scot.—died Aug. 21, 1798, Edenton, N.C., U.S.), colonial American lawyer and political theorist, who signed both the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the Constitution of the United States (1787).
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James Wilson, the Founding Father from Scotland, sought to enshrine his principles of democracy, explains Geoffrey Seed, in the constitution of the United States of America. James Wilson is probably the most under-rated, and least well understood, of all the Founding Fathers of the American Republic. Yet his achievements give him a claim to ...
James Wilson, founding father, political philosopher. Who is James Wilson? James Wilson (1742-98), an émigré from Scotland, became one of the premier minds and leading figures of the American Founding. He would settle eventually in Philadelphia, but he brought with him an education shaped at the Universities of St. Andrews, Glasgow, and Edinburgh.
Wilson spent the last years of life as a Supreme Court Justice. During his time on the court, financial difficulties distracted him from his duties. Wilson died in 1798, at the age of 55. Wilson was born in Fife, Scotland in 1742 in the Scottish Lowlands.
Jul 13, 2020 · Smith, Charles Page. James Wilson, Founding Father: 1742-1798. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1956. Nicholas Mosvick is a Senior Fellow for Constitutional Content at the National Constitution Center. In the first entry into the series on “Forgotten Founders,” we explored Gouverneur Morris.
Williamson, Hugh, NC. Wilson, James, PA. Founding Father, jurist and American statesman James Wilson, was among the first supporters of the American Revolution. Wilson was born on September 14, 1742 in Carskerdo, Scotland and emigrated in 1766 to British America.