Gunning Bedford, Jr. - Signers Of The U.S. Constitution
by Lyle Tayson
Title
Gunning Bedford, Jr. - Signers Of The U.S. Constitution
Artist
Lyle Tayson
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Painting - Watercolor On Cold Press Illustration Board
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Gunning Bedford, Jr., a lawyer and judge, was one of the signers of the United States Constitution from the state of Delaware. This distinguished patriot was born in Philadelphia in 1747. When he was twenty, he entered the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University. After his graduation in 1771, he returned to Philadelphia where he studied law. About eight years later he moved to Dover, Delaware. On August 4, 1779, he was admitted to the bar and began practicing law in Dover. He was elected to the Continental Congress in 1783, and served until 1785. On April 26, 1784, Bedford was appointed attorney general for the state of Delaware. He was one of Delaware's five delegates to the Annapolis Convention in 1786, and in 1787, Bedford was appointed to represent Delaware at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. He became one of the most vocal spokesmen for the interests of the small states. The forcefulness of his arguments has been credited with being an important factor in the decision to give each state two senators in the upper house of the national Congress. Bedford devoted the rest of his life to public service. In 1789, President George Washington, recognizing Bedford's outstanding legal talents, named him the first United States district judge for the state of Delaware, a position he held until his death in 1812.
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