Charles Humphreys

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Charles Humphreys (born September 19, 1714 in Haverford , Province of Pennsylvania , †  March 11, 1786 ibid) was an American politician who participated as a delegate from Pennsylvania at the Continental Congress.

Charles Humphreys was born in what is now Delaware County in southeastern Pennsylvania. He completed his preparatory school education, but then worked as a miller . His political career began during the British colonial era when he was a member of the Provincial Congress of Pennsylvania from 1764 to 1774.

In 1774 he was sent as a delegate from his home state to the sessions of the first Continental Congress in Philadelphia . In July 1776 he voted against the ratification of the Declaration of Independence - for reasons of conscience, since as a Quaker he rejected the war that appeared inevitable after this step. In the same year he resigned from the Continental Congress. Humphreys died in Haverford in 1786 and was buried in the Old Haverford Meeting House Cemetery there.

literature

Claus Bernet : Humphrey, Charles. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL), Volume 37, 2016, Sp. 522-524.

Web links

  • Charles Humphreys in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)