Sullivan, John, 1740-1795
John Sullivan (February 17, 1740 – January 23, 1795) was a Founding Father of the United States and an American General in the Revolutionary War winning several key battles most notably the Delaware crossing. He was a delegate in the Continental Congress, where he signed the Continental Association, the third governor of New Hampshire, and a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire.
Born in Somersworth in the Province of New Hampshire, British America, he received a limited education. Sullivan read law between 1758 and 1760. He began the practice of law in 1763 at Berwick, now in Maine, and continued in the practice when he moved to Durham, New Hampshire in 1764. Sullivan built a friendship with the royal governor of New Hampshire, John Wentworth, but turned away from Wentworth as the American Revolution grew nearer. In 1774, Sullivan was named as a delegate to the First Continental Congress. In January 1775, a second Provincial Congress at Exeter voted to send Sullivan to the Second Continental Congress. On June 27, 1775, Sullivan left Philadelphia to join the army at the siege of Boston.
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