The magazine of American history with notes and queries . s public career covered aperiod of more than forty years,six of which were spent at theCourt of St. James as ministerto England. He was a scholarlypolitician and an accomplisheddiplomatist; as a man he wasuniversally respected and be-loved. Connecticut sent three ofher brightest and best Samuel Johnson, sixtyyears of age and a college pres-ident (having just been electedto preside over Columbia Col-lege), was not only an eminentlawyer and a judge of dis-tinction but one of the mostaccomplished scholars of histime in science
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . s public career covered aperiod of more than forty years,six of which were spent at theCourt of St. James as ministerto England. He was a scholarlypolitician and an accomplisheddiplomatist; as a man he wasuniversally respected and be-loved. Connecticut sent three ofher brightest and best Samuel Johnson, sixtyyears of age and a college pres-ident (having just been electedto preside over Columbia Col-lege), was not only an eminentlawyer and a judge of dis-tinction but one of the mostaccomplished scholars of histime in science and in literature. He was the son of Rev. SamuelJohnson, , first president of Columbia (Kings) College, and withthe exception of Rufus King was the only New England Episcopa-lian in the Convention. He had been an important member of the StampAct Congress of 1765, and assisted in writing its address to the king; hewas the able agent of Connecticut in England before the war, whereOxford made him a doctor of the civil law, and where he was on intimate. WILLIAM SAMUEL JOHNSON. •This Magazine published in November, 1884 [XII. 395], a portrait of Rufus King. f The Connecticut Delegation : William Samuel Johnson, Roger Sherman, Oliver Ellsworth. THE FRAMERS OF THE CONSTITUTION 337 friendly terms with Dr. Samuel Johnson, and the privileged guest in thecultured circle of which that literary colossus was the acknowledged his return to Connecticut he was made judge of the Superior Court,and subsequently was the leading commissioner in adjusting the territorialdisputes with Pennsylvania. He also served in the Old Congress from1784 to 1787. Roger Sherman was six years older than Johnson, and inmany respects the most remarkable man in the Convention. No one cer-
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