STORIES OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIERS

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Governeur Morris

" Governeur Morris commenced his earthly pilgrimage near the city of New York in 1752. He was liberally educated and became an eloquent and sound lawyer. He was a member of the Provincial Congress of N. Y. in 1775 and on the committee that drafted the first constitution of that state. In 1777 he was a member of the Continental Congress. In 1781 was associated with Robert Morris as assistant superintendent of Finance. In 1787 a member of the Convention that framed the Federal Constitution. In 1792 minister plenipotentiary to France and in 1800 was elected to the U. S. Senate where his extensive acquirements and Ciceronean eloquence shed fresh lustre on that body,on his country, and his own high reputation. Mr. Sparks has published his speeches and writings with an interesting biographical sketch of his life. He was an ornament to every circle in which he moved, an honor to every station he filled a particular star in the galaxy of the Sages of his day and generation."

Source: The Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by L. Carroll Judson