Houston was a New Jersey delegate at both the Annapolis and the Philadelphia conventions. His participation at the latter convention was brief since illness forced him to go home after only a week.
The following year he died of tuberculosis. At sixty-four, Livingston was one of the oldest men at the convention. Despite his aristocratic background, Livingston was a defender of popular causes in his native New York and an antiestablishment crusader during the s. When the liberal faction he belonged to split over the Stamp Act in , Livingston pulled up stakes and moved to New Jersey, where he built an elegant estate, Liberty Hall, and retired from public life to write poetry and live as a gentleman farmer.
He served in both the First and the Second Continental Congresses, and when war began he became a brigadier general in the New Jersey militia. In he was elected the first governor of the state of New Jersey, a post he held for fourteen consecutive years.
His duties as governor prevented him from attending every session of the Philadelphia convention, and he missed several weeks of debate in July. He was a supporter of the New Jersey Plan but worked tirelessly for ratification of the Constitution in its final form. Despite his many political commitments, Livingston managed to conduct agricultural experiments and to work in the antislavery movement.
Paterson was born in Ireland, but his family immigrated to America when he was only two years old, settling first in Connecticut and later in Trenton, New Jersey. The family prospered and Paterson was able to attend the College of New Jersey. Subscribe to Newsletter. We use cookies to improve your experience on our website. By browsing this website, you agree to our use of cookies. Read more about our Privacy Policy. He then returned to the duties of the professorship at the College of New Jersey, resigning in , to devote his whole attention to political duties and the practice of law; was also receiver of continental taxes, from to He always kept up his interest in the College of New Jersey, serving as its treasurer until his death, and was one of the founders and first stockholders of the Trenton Academy.
He was again elected to Congress in October, , and reelected in October, When the question of adopting a national constitution was first agitated, and a call for a convention to be held at Annapolis, Maryland, was issued, New Jersey was the first to name delegates, one of whom was William Churchill Houston, but only a few states sending delegates, nothing was accomplished, and he was again named as a delegate to the later successful convention held at Philadelphia.
He was one of the delegates named from the State of New Jersey to the convention that framed the United States Constitution in , and took an active part in its deliberations. He was the author of the motion to strike out the clause making the president ineligible to reelection.
Shortly after the Constitutional Convention , professional and political duties impairing his health, Mr. Houston, decided to seek rest in a long deferred visit to his old home and kindred in North Carolina, and started on the journey, but was taken seriously ill at an inn on Frankford Road, in Philadelphia, kept by a Mr.
Geisse, and died there, August 12, , and was buried in the church-yard of the Second Presbyterian Church, at the northwest corner of Arch and Third Streets, Philadelphia. William Churchill Houston married Jane, daughter of Rev. Caleb Smith, of St. Houston, died in , at the age of forty-one years and was buried at Lawrenceville Cemetery. William Houston From Conservapedia. Jump to: navigation , search. John Blair Jr. Senate He supported the Louisiana Purchase and, in conformance with his Federalist views, opposed the repeal of the Judiciary Act of In illness prevented Dayton from accompanying Aaron Burr's abortive expedition to the Southwest, where the latter apparently intended to conquer Spanish lands and create an empire.
Subsequently indicted for treason, Dayton was not prosecuted but could not salvage his national political career. He remained popular in New Jersey, however, continuing to hold local offices and sitting in the assembly In the year-old Dayton played host to Lafayette during his triumphal tour of the United States, and his death at Elizabeth later that year may have been hastened by the exertion and excitement.
He was laid to rest at St. John's Episcopal Church in his hometown. Because he owned , acres of Ohio land between the Big and Little Miami Rivers, the city of Dayton, was named after him--his major monument. He had married Susan Williamson, but the date of their wedding is unknown. They had two daughters. William Houston was born about to Margaret and Archibald Houston.
He attended the College of New Jersey later Princeton and graduated in and became master of the college grammar school and then its tutor. In he was appointed professor of mathematics and natural philosophy. From to Houston was deputy secretary of the Continental Congress. He also saw active military service in and when, as captain of the foot militia of Somerset County, he engaged in action around Princeton. In he was once again elected to the Continental Congress, where he worked mainly in the areas of supply and finance.
In addition to serving in Congress, Houston remained active in the affairs of the College of New Jersey and also found time to study law. He was admitted to the bar in and won the appointment of clerk of the New Jersey Supreme Court in the same year. Houston resigned from the college in and concentrated on his Trenton law practice.
He represented New Jersey in Congress once again in and Houston represented New Jersey at both the Annapolis and Philadelphia conventions. Though illness forced him to leave after 1 week, he did serve on a committee to consider the distribution of seats in the lower house. Houston did not sign the Constitution, but he signed the report to the New Jersey legislature. His body was laid to rest in the Second Presbyterian Churchyard in Philadelphia. Livingston was born in at Albany, NY.
His maternal grandmother reared him until he was 14, and he then spent a year with a missionary among the Mohawk Indians. He attended Yale and graduated in Rejecting his family's hope that he would enter the fur trade at Albany or mercantile pursuits in New York City, young Livingston chose to pursue a career in law at the latter place. Before he completed his legal studies, in he married Susanna French, daughter of a well-to-do New Jersey landowner.
She was to bear 13 children.
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