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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—DelawareGunning BEDFORD, Jr.
(1747-1812)
BEDFORD, Gunning, Jr.,
(cousin of Gunning Bedford), a Delegate from Delaware; born in
Philadelphia, Pa., in 1747; was graduated from Princeton College in
1771; studied law in Philadelphia; was admitted to the Delaware bar
in 1779 and commenced practice in Dover, Del.; moved to Wilmington,
Del.; Member of the Continental Congress 1783-1785; appointed
attorney general of the State on April 26, 1784, and served until
September 26, 1789; appointed a commissioner to the convention held
at Annapolis, Md., in September 1786 but did not attend; member of
the Federal constitutional convention at Philadelphia in 1787 and
signed the Constitution; delegate to the State convention that
ratified the Federal Constitution in 1787; member of the State
senate in 1788; appointed United States judge for the district of
Delaware September 26, 1789, which position he held until his death
in Wilmington, Del., March 30, 1812; interment in First
Presbyterian Churchyard; reinterment at the Masonic Home of
Delaware, on Lancaster Pike, two miles west of Wilmington, Del.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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