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 Wilson,
JAMES, signer of the
Declaration
of Independence; born near St. Andrew's, Scotland, September 14,
1742; educated in Scotland; came to America, and in 1766 was tutor
in the higher seminaries of learning in Philadelphia, and studied
law under John Dickinson. He was in
the Provincial Convention of
Pennsylvania in 1774, and was a delegate in Congress the next
year, where he was an advocate for independence. From 1779 to 1783
he was advocate-general for France in the United States. Mr. Wilson
was a member of the convention that framed the national
Constitution, and of the Pennsylvania convention that adopted it;
and was one of the first judges of the Supreme Court of the United
States. He became the first Professor of Law in the University of
Pennsylvania in 1790; and, with Thomas
McKean, LL.D., published Commentaries on the Constitution of the
United States. He died in Edenton,
North Carolina, August
28, 1798. |
