biography
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| lived:
| (1730–81)
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| biography:
| Revolutionary patriot, born in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. He graduated from Princeton College (1748) and practised law in New Jersey (1754–66). He was on the executive council for the province of New Jersey (1768–76), served in the Continental Congress (1776), and signed the Declaration of Independence. Taken prisoner by Tories in late 1776, he was released after an imprisonment in New York, but the experience had broken his health. New Jersey placed his statue in the US Capitol. |
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