George Clymer

George Clymer ( born March 16, 1739 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain; † January 23, 1813 in Morrisville, Pennsylvania, United States) was an American politician and one of the founding fathers of the United States.

Life

Clymer was orphaned at a young age and went with a paternal uncle apprenticed to the merchant. He was a patriot and leader of the demonstrations in Philadelphia on the occasion of Teegesetzes and the Stamp Act. In 1773 he became a member of the safety committee in Philadelphia before he took part from 1776 to 1777 and from 1780 to 1782 as a delegate to the Continental Congress. He was a member of the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, tax officials and federal Indian commissioner from 1781 to 1796. Clymer signed the Declaration of Independence of the United States for Pennsylvania. He was in 1789 elected to the first U.S. House of Representatives. Clymer shared his duty as treasurer of the Continental Congress with Michael Hillegas, the first Treasurer of the United States.

Clymer was the first president of the Philadelphia Bank and the Philadelphiaer Academy of Fine Arts as well as Vice President of Philadelphiaer Agricultural Society. When Congress passed a law that took 1771 spirits were distilled in the United States with a discharge, George Clymer was chief executive of the department in Pennsylvania. He was also one of the authorized representatives for the negotiation of a treaty between the Cherokee and Muskogee on June 29, 1796. He is also regarded as the founder of Indiana Borough.