Elias Boudinot
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,br> Elias Boudinot was born on May 2, 1740 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He read law with Richard Stockton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. In 1776, Congress appointed him Commissary General of prisoners. The next, year he was elected to the Continental Congress and proved an able and efficient member. In 1782, he was elevated to the presidential chair of that bright galaxy of sages and had the high honor—the untold pleasure: of signing the treaty of peace forced from mother Britain. In 1780, he was elected a member of Congress under the new Constitution. In 1795, President Washington placed him at the head of the Mint at Philadelphia which office he filled for 12 years. He then retired from the public arena and settled at Bordentown, New Jersey where he died October 24, 1821.