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Apr 22, 2024 · John Langdon (born June 26, 1741, Portsmouth, N.H., U.S.—died Sept. 18, 1819, Portsmouth) was a state legislator, governor, and U.S. senator during the Revolutionary and early national period (1775–1812). After an apprenticeship in a Portsmouth countinghouse and several years at sea, he became a prosperous shipowner and merchant.
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John Langdon (June 26, 1741 – September 18, 1819) was an American politician and Founding Father from New Hampshire. He served as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention , signed the United States Constitution , and was one of the first two United States senators from New Hampshire.
New Hampshire. John Langdon. Langdon, who stood out at the Convention despite his late arrival, was a politician and businessman who had enthusiastically backed the patriot cause during the War for Independence He also enjoyed long and fruitful careers in New Hampshire and national politics. Langdon was born in 1741 at or near Portsmouth, N.H.
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Jun 26, 2014 · John Langdon. Born on June 26, 1741, Langdon, along with many men seeking their fortunes in the 1750s and 60s, chose to go to sea rather than pursue the hard life of farming. He had apprenticed himself to a sea captain as a young man and by the 1770s he owned several ships and was amassing one of the largest fortunes in New Hampshire.
John Langdon, who represented New Hampshire at the Constitutional Convention, was a wealthy international trader. Thrust by his widespread commercial interests into the forefront of the Patriot cause, Langdon contributed his highly developed business acumen during the Revolution to the problems of supplying the Continental Navy.
Wilson, James, PA. John Langdon was a Portsmouth, New Hampshire politician born on the 26th of June, 1741. Langdon was one of the early supporters of the Revolutionary War who later worked for Continental Congress. He stayed with the Congress for twelve years, and he became the Senate's first president pro tempore.
Wordplay was first published in 1992 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. It caught the attention of a young novelist, Dan Brown, who was inspired to build the plot of his second novel, Angels & Demons around ambigrams he commissioned me to design for the book. In 2005, a second edition of Wordplay was published by Broadway Books, as Dan’s huge ...
