biography
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| lived:
| (1721–93)
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| biography:
| US statesman, born in Newton, Massachusetts, USA. He lived in Connecticut from 1743. First elected to the State Assembly in 1755, he became a judge of the superior court (1766–89) and Mayor of New Haven (1784–93). A signatory of the Declaration of Independence, as a delegate to the Convention of 1787 he took a prominent part in the debates on the Constitution. |
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