George Clymer (politician)

George Clymer

George Clymer (born March 16, 1739 in Philadelphia , Province of Pennsylvania , colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain , † January 23, 1813 in Morrisville , Pennsylvania , USA ) was an American politician and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States .

Life

Clymer was an orphan at a young age and apprenticed to a merchant with an uncle on his father's side. He was a patriot and leader of the Philadelphia Tea and Stamp Act demonstrations . In 1773 he became a member of the Philadelphia Security Committee before taking part as a delegate at the Continental Congress from 1776 to 1777 and from 1780 to 1782 . He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives , tax officer, and federal Indian commissioner from 1781 to 1796. Clymer signed the United States Declaration of Independence for Pennsylvania . He was elected to the first US House of Representatives in 1789 . Clymer shared his duties as Treasurer of the Continental Congress with Michael Hillegas , the first Treasurer of the United States . Since 1786 he was an elected member of the American Philosophical Society .

Clymer was the first president of the Philadelphia Bank and the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts and vice president of the Philadelphia Society for Agriculture. When Congress passed a law requiring a levy on spirits distilled in the United States in 1771, George Clymer was the executive director of Pennsylvania. He was also one of the agents in negotiating a treaty between the Cherokee and the Muskogee on June 29, 1796. He is also considered the founder of Indiana Borough.

Web links

• George Clymer in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Member History: George Clymer. American Philosophical Society, accessed June 22, 2018 .