Nathaniel Gorham

Nathaniel Gorham ( born May 27, 1738 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, † June 11, 1796 ) was an American politician, the eighth President of the Continental Congress of the Confederation and with the signing of the Constitution of the United States one of the founding fathers of the United States.

Life and work

Personal

Nathaniel Gorham was born in 1738 the son of a ship worker in Charlestown, Massachusetts. After an education and some small work items in his home town of Gorham was in 1754 in New London, Connecticut at Nathaniel Coffin, a merchant in teaching. After he was familiar with the import -export trade, he returned in 1759 to his home and opened his own shop. In 1763 he married Rebecca Call, with whom he had nine children.

Political career

In 1770, Gorham started his career as a notary. The following year he was elected to the legislature of the Thirteen Colonies, three years later, in 1774, he was CEO of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, a provisional government in the American War of Independence. Member of the Continental Congress, he was in 1782. President of the Congress of the Confederacy, he was on 15 May 1786 after John Hancock has resigned. He was replaced in 1787 by Arthur St. Clair.

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