 | Middlebury College - 1853 - 156 pages
...Rutland County, 1829-35. SAMUEL NELSON, from Hebron, NY, was born in 1792 or '93. He became a lawyer. He was a member of the Convention to revise the Constitution of New York, 1821 ; appointed a Judge of the Circuit Courts of NY, 1823 ; was afterwards Chief Justice... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - Men - 1890 - 312 pages
...the banks of the Monongahcla, in Pennsylvania, where his talents were soon brought into requisition. He was a member of the convention to revise the constitution of Pennsylvania, in 1789, and for two succeeding years he was representative of the State legislature.... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - Literary Criticism - 1855 - 410 pages
...the banks of the Monongahela, in Pennsylvania, where his talents were soon brought into requisition. He was a member of the convention to revise the constitution of Pennsylvania, in 1789, and for two succeeding years he was representative of the State legislature.... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - Literary Criticism - 1855 - 418 pages
...the banks of the Monongahela, in Pennsylvania, where his talents were soon brought into requisition. He was a member of the convention to revise the constitution of Pennsylvania, in 1789, and for two succeeding years he was representative of the State legislature.... | |
 | Presidents - 1857 - 426 pages
...the banks of the Monongahela, in Pennsylvania, where his talents were soon brought into requisition. He was a member of the convention to revise the constitution of Pennsylvania, in 1789, and for two succeeding years he was representative of the State legislature.... | |
 | John Adams Vinton - Massachusetts - 1858 - 592 pages
...framing the Constitution of Massachusetts, 1780. He removed from Westford to Cavendish, Vt., in 1787. He was a member of the Convention to revise the Constitution of Vermont. He was frequently a member of the Legislature ; some years a judge of the County Court ; and... | |
 | John Adams Vinton - 1858 - 596 pages
...framing the Constitution of Massachusetts, 1780. He removed from Westford to Cavendish, Vt., in 1787. He was a member of the Convention to revise the Constitution of Vermont. He was frequently a member of the Legislature ; some years a judge of the County Court; and... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1859 - 812 pages
...a foreigner should fail of justice in our country for want of an advocate." In 1835 he was a memher of the convention to revise the constitution of North...right of suffrage, which at that time they possessed, hut which was taken from them by the new constitution. In 1834 he was made a judge of the supreme court... | |
 | Legislative power - 1859 - 710 pages
...of Representatives, with the exception of two intervals of two years each, until 1829 ; in that year he was a member of the Convention to revise the Constitution of Virginia, and he was afterwards appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia, by President Jackson,... | |
 | Charles Lanman - United States - 1864 - 556 pages
...William. — He was, for many years, an active politician, and a leader of the Anti-masonic party. He was a member of the Convention to revise the Constitution of Pennsylvania, and a Representative in Congress, from that State, from 1831 to 1837. He died October... | |
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He was a member of the convention to revise the constitution of Pennsylvania, in 1789, and for two succeeding years he was representative of the State legislature. 
