James McClurg

James McClurg (born 1746 near Hampton , Virginia Colony ; † July 9, 1823 in Richmond , Virginia ) was an American doctor. After completing school at the College of William & Mary in Virginia, he studied medicine at the Edinburgh Medical School and in Paris until 1770 . On his return in 1773 he worked as a professor of anatomy and medicine at the College of William & Mary and as a surgeon in the Revolutionary War .

As an MP for Virginia, he attended the United States Constitutional Convention in 1787 , but was not present when the draft constitution was passed. Several times he was elected mayor of his home parish Richmond, in 1820 and 1821 he was founding president of the Medical Society of Virginia.

In 1779 he married Elizabeth Seldon. A lifelong friendship connected him with Thomas Jefferson .

Works

James Maclurg [!]: Experiments Upon the Human Bile and Reflections on the Biliary Secretions . T. Cadell, in the Strand, London 1772 ( archive.org [accessed September 28, 2019]).
James Maclurg [!]: On Reasoning in Medicine . In: Philadelphia Journal of the Medical and Physical Sciences . 1, 1820, pp. 217-241. Retrieved September 28, 2019.

Web links

Commons : James McClurg - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b The Founding Fathers: Virginia. In: National Archives: America's founding documents. December 19, 2018, accessed September 28, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	McClurg, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American doctor and participant in the United States Constitutional Convention
DATE OF BIRTH	1746
PLACE OF BIRTH	at Hampton , Colony of Virginia
DATE OF DEATH	July 9, 1823
Place of death	Richmond , Virginia

[AHRR-1] A ^b The Founding Fathers: Virginia. In: National Archives: America's founding documents. December 19, 2018, accessed September 28, 2019 .