James Wilson
Justice on the US Supreme Court
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, James Wilson was a Scottish-born American Founding Father, legal scholar, jurist, and statesman who served as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1789 to 1798. Wilson was elected twice to the Continental Congress, was a signatory of the Declaration of Independence, and was a major participant in drafting the U.S. Constitution. A leading legal theorist, he was one of the first four Associate Justices appointed to the Supreme Court by George Washington. In his capacity as the first professor of law at the College of Philadelphia , he taught the first course on the new Constitution to President Washington and his Cabinet in 1789 and 1790.
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