he lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and was educated in the College of Philadelphia and also represented the state of Pennsylvania in the time of the Constitutional Convention. HOWEVER FOR MOST OF HIS LIFE HE LIVED IN CHINATOWN!
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There were two very famous individuals around the same era (1700's). The first one (and probably most obvious) was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He also became one of the original members of the Supreme Court. His religious affiliation was that of a Episcopalian and a Presbyterian, and a devout Christian
The second individual was a captain that brought the first Christian missionaries to Tahiti.
Wilson was a deeply religious man. The missionaries he brought were from the London Missionary Society. There were thirty men, six women and three children.
James Wilson was a Scottish lawyer, most notable as a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.
Jefferson, Jackson, Van Buren, Buchanan and Chester Arthur served their entire time as president without a wife. Tyler, Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison and Wilson served parts of their terms without a wife in the White House.
because he was cool.
Yes No. Only when he was writing the Federalist Papers. After that he was an anti-Federalist supporter of Jefferson.
James Wilson was a slave owner who really made a fortune using slaves. He also owned a plantation where his slaves worked for him.
James Buchanan was never married. Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren and Chester Alan Arthur were widowers and were unmarried while they were President.. Grover Cleveland was a bachelor when he took office, but married while he was President. John Tyler, Woodrow Wilson and Benjamin Harrison had their wives die while they were President and so were unmarried until they married again.