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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.
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- September 14, 1742, Carskerdo Farm, Fife, Scotland, Great Britain
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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. (One of the Founding Fathers of the United States & a Signatory of the Declaration of Independence) James Wilson, a lawyer by profession, was one of the many delegates from Pennsylvania who signed the U.S. Declaration of Independence in 1776. A prominent lawyer of his times, he was appointed by the President George Washington as ...
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.
Wilson was born in Fife, Scotland in 1742 in the Scottish Lowlands. He won a scholarship to the University at St. Andrews and attended the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh where he studied prominent thinkers of the Scottish enlightenment such as Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, and Adam Smith.
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. Steeped in the commonsense philosophy of one of the most luminous ...
Representative for Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress. by Ole Erekson, Engraver, c1876, Library of Congress. James Wilson was born in Scotland in 1742. He attended a surprising number of Universities there, and never attained a degree. He emigrated to America in 1766, carrying a number of valuable letters of Introduction with him.