The magazine of American history with notes and queries . member of the New York bar as early as 1752, andwas one of the most caustic and forcible essayists in the country ; he wasalso one of the few poets of his time. It was next to impossible for himto make a speech that was not seasoned with dry humor and stingingsatire. He was probably the best classical scholar in the assemblage. Hehad through a long career of active public and political service acquittedhimself with honor. He had been a member of the first and second Conti- * The New Jersey ablegates were : William Livingston, William Pa
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . member of the New York bar as early as 1752, andwas one of the most caustic and forcible essayists in the country ; he wasalso one of the few poets of his time. It was next to impossible for himto make a speech that was not seasoned with dry humor and stingingsatire. He was probably the best classical scholar in the assemblage. Hehad through a long career of active public and political service acquittedhimself with honor. He had been a member of the first and second Conti- * The New Jersey ablegates were : William Livingston, William Patterson, Jonathan Dayton,David Brearly, William C. Houston. THE FRAMERS OF THE CONSTITUTION 339 nental Congresses, and from 1776 until his death in 1790 was governor ofNew Jersey, conducting her affairs, particularly during the Revolution,with great judgment and energy. He was a most ardent hater of all mon-archical forms, a political prophet, and a sagacious adviser. David Brearly,the chief justice of New Jersey, was a much younger man, only forty-one,. OLIVER ELLSWORTH. and an able, active, and important member of the Convention. WilliamPatterson was one year his senior, a man of great learning and many ac-complishments. He was a lawyer, admitted to the bar in 1769, and amember of the New Jersey constitutional convention in 1776, after whichfor ten years he was attorney-general of the state. When the new gov-ernment went into operation he was elected to the Senate, and in 1791 be-came governor of New Jersey. He subsequently was appointed a justice 540 THE FRAMERS OF THE CONSTITUTION of the Supreme Court. In 1798 he revised by legislative authority thelaws of New Jersey. Jonathan Dayton was a young lawyer of muchpromise, aged twenty-seven, a native of Elizabethtown. From 1795 to1799 he was speaker of the House of Representatives ; and during thenext six years was United States Senator from New Jersey. The most prominent of the Maryland delegates* was Luther Martin, at-torney-g
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