Elias Boudinot

Elias Boudinot (born May 2, 1740 in Philadelphia , Province of Pennsylvania , † October 24, 1821 in Burlington , New Jersey ) was an American politician . In 1782 and 1783 he was President of the Continental Congress ; between 1789 and 1795 he represented the state of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Elias Boudinot grew up during the British colonial era. He enjoyed a good education. After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1760, he began to work in Elizabethtown in this profession. From 1772 until his death he was the curator of Princeton College . At the beginning of the American Revolution , Boudinot joined the independence movement. In 1775 he became a member of a security committee in his homeland. During the War of Independence , he served as a colonel in the Continental Army between 1776 and 1779 . He was responsible for the treatment of prisoners of war. From 1778 to 1783 he was a delegate on several occasions in the Continental Congress, as its president he was from 1782. Elias Boudinot was also one of the signatories of the peace treaty of 1783 that ended the War of Independence. Otherwise he worked as a lawyer. Politically he was close to the federal government under President George Washington after 1789 .

In the first congressional elections held in New Jersey in 1789 , he was elected for the first seat of the state of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1789. After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1795 . In 1791 the first ten amendments to the constitution , the Bill of Rights , were ratified. In 1794 Elias Boudinot renounced another candidacy.

After his tenure in the US House of Representatives, he served as head of the United States Mint between 1795 and 1805 . In 1816 he became the first president of the American Bible Society . Boudinot was married to Hannah Stockton (1736-1808), with whom he had two children. One daughter was the wife of Attorney General William Bradford . Boudinot died in Burlington on October 24, 1824.

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personal data
SURNAME	Boudinot, Elias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician
DATE OF BIRTH	May 2, 1740
PLACE OF BIRTH	Philadelphia , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH	October 24, 1821
Place of death	Burlington , New Jersey