Nicholas Gilman - Signers Of The U.S. Constitution
by Lyle Tayson
Title
Nicholas Gilman - Signers Of The U.S. Constitution
Artist
Lyle Tayson
Medium
Painting - Watercolor On Cold Press Illustration Board
Description
Although he was regarded as one of the best looking and most elegant men in New Hampshire, Nicholas Gilman was one of the three bachelors to sign the United States Constitution. He was born to a very prominent New Hampshire family in 1755. His associates seemed to regard him as a self-seeking politician who preferred the titles of the offices he won to the work they entailed. He was chosen by theNew Hampshire state legislature as one of its delegates to the Congress of the Confederation from 1786 to 1788. When the Constitutional Convention was called to meet in Philadelphia in 1787, the New Hampshire treasury was so low on funds that no money could be appropriated to pay the expenses of delegates to the meeting. However, John Langdon, the wealthiest man in the state, volunteered to pay his own and Gilman's expenses to the Convention. Gilman apparently took little or no part in the discussions at the Convention, and signed the Constitution without comment. He was then elected as one of New Hampshire's three U.S. Representatives in Congress in February 1789. Politics had become more important to him than family. His brother, John Gilman, had been elected Governor of New Hampshire. Nicholas helped his friend, John Langdon, defeat his own brother for office. Nicholas Gilman was then elected as U.S. Senator in 1805. He served there for nine years, until he became suddenly ill and died at the age of fifty-eight.
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