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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyWilliam PATERSON
(1745-1806)
Senate Years of Service:
1789-1790Party: Pro-AdministrationPATERSON, William, a
Delegate and a Senator from New Jersey; born in County Antrim,
Ireland, December 24, 1745; immigrated to the United States in 1747
with his parents, who settled in New Castle, Pa.; moved about
through the colonies before settling in Princeton, N.J., in 1750;
attended private schools; graduated from the College of New Jersey
(later Princeton University) in 1763; studied law; admitted to the
bar in 1768 and commenced practice in New Bromley, N.J., in 1769;
delegate and secretary to the Provincial Congress 1775-1776;
member, State legislative council 1776-1777; delegate to the State
constitutional convention in 1776; attorney general of New Jersey
1776-1783, when he resigned; moved to Raritan, N.J., in 1779;
elected as a Delegate to the Continental Congress in 1780, but
declined, owing to his duties as attorney general; moved to New
Brunswick, N.J., in 1783; delegate to the Federal Constitutional
Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 and one of the signers of the
Constitution; again elected as a Delegate to the Continental
Congress in 1787, but declined; elected to the United States Senate
and served from March 4, 1789, to November 13, 1790, when he
resigned, having been elected Governor of New Jersey; reelected
Governor and served until 1793, when he resigned to become an
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and
served until his death in Albany, N.Y., September 9, 1806;
interment in the Van Rensselaer Manor House vault, near Albany,
N.Y.; manor house destroyed around 1900; reinterred in Van
Rensselaer lot, Albany Rural Cemetery, Albany, N.Y.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Haskett, Richard.
“William Paterson, Counsellor at Law.” Ph.D.
dissertation, Princeton University, 1952; O’Connor, John E.
William Paterson: Lawyer and Statesman. New Brunswick:
Rutgers University Press, 1979.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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