Records of the U.S. Senate. 1789 - 2015. Credentials. 1789 - 1998. Credentials of Senators Richard Bassett and George Read from Delaware
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Read, George, 1733-1798
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George Read (September 18, 1733 – September 21, 1798) was a politician from New Castle in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a Founding Father of the United States who signed the Declaration of Independence, a Continental Congressman from Delaware, a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, President of Delaware, and a member of the Federalist Party, who served as U.S. Senator from Delaware and Chief Justice of Delaware. Read was one of only two statesmen who signed four of the g...
Bassett, Richard, 1745-1815
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Revolutionary statesman. From the description of Check signed : [n.p.], 1802 Feb. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270873022 American lawyer; US Senator from Delaware;, 1789-1793; Governor of Delaware, 1799-1801 From the guide to the Richard Bassett check to Rev. William M. Tenant, 1799, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) U.S. senator from and governor of Delaware, Army officer, and jurist. From the description...
