U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition)

Grand Convention at Philadelphia, May to September, 1787, Quill Project 2021 Edition.

Hugh Williamson

Quill platform ID: p84.

(5 December 1735 – 22 May 1819) Physician, scientist and legislator. A qualified doctor, he also worked on a number of scientific questions and collaborated with Benjamin Franklin to study electricity. During the Revolutionary War he was Surgeon General of North Carolina and a field surgeon in the Continental Army. Afterwards he was elected to the North Carolina legislature and then the Confederation Congress. He was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention and subsequently a member of the US House of Representatives.

Member of North Carolina Delegation—U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition).

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