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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyLambert CADWALADER
(1742-1823)
CADWALADER, Lambert, a
Delegate and a Representative from New Jersey; born near Trenton,
N.J., in 1742; attended Dr. Alison’s Academy, and the
University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1760; member of the
common council of Philadelphia at the beginning of the Revolution;
signed the nonimportation agreement in 1765; delegate to the
provincial convention in Pennsylvania in 1775 and to the State
constitutional convention in 1776; entered the Revolutionary Army
and commanded a regiment of “The Greens”; lieutenant
colonel of the Third Pennsylvania Battalion in 1776; colonel of the
Fourth Pennsylvania Line; after being taken a prisoner at Fort
Washington on the Hudson resigned from the Army; Member of the
Continental Congress in 1785, 1786 and 1787; elected as a
Pro-Administration candidate to the First Congress (March 4,
1789-March 3, 1791); elected as a Pro-Administration candidate to
the Third Congress (March 4, 1793-March 3, 1795); died on his
estate, “Greenwood,” near Trenton, N.J., September 13,
1823; interment in the Friends Burying Ground, Trenton, N.J.
Bibliography
[Rawle, William Henry]. Colonel Lambert Cadwalader, of Trenton,
New Jersey. [Philadelphia?: n.p., 1878].
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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