Oliver Ellsworth

Oliver Ellsworth (April 29th 1745 - November 26th 1807) was a man of law, revolutionist, one of the writers of the Constitution of the United States of America, politician American, President of the Supreme court of the United States.

It one of the signatories of the Treated of Mortefontaine, with Guillaume Richardson Davie (Governor of North Carolina) and Guillaume Vans Murray (Minister resident in $the Hague). This treaty made it possible to put an end to the hostilities between the France and the United States and to establish a durable peace between the two nations, at the beginning of the 19th century.

He is the inventor of the denomination United States off America (the United States of America).

Family and youth

He was born with Windsor (Connecticut), wire of the Captain David and Jemima Leavitt Ellsworth. He enters to the Université of Yale in 1762, but joined, at the end of his second year the College off New Jersey (named Université Princeton later) where he studies the Théologie and obtains his license after 2 years. A little later it launches out however in studies of Droit and after four years, it is allowed with the Barreau in 1771. The following year he marries Abigail Wolcott.

During the American Revolution

The cabinet of Ellsworth becomes soon prosperous. Its reputation of qualified and hard-working lawyer grows and, in 1777, Ellsworth becomes prosecutor of Connecticut for the Comté of Hartford. This same year it is indicated like one of the representatives of Connecticut to the continental Congrès. It takes part at various commissions during six years, until in 1783. Ellsworth takes part then in the efforts of its State at the time of the Guerre of independence. As a Member of the Commission of finances, Oliver Ellsworth is one of the five men in charge of the supervision of the expenditure of Connecticut for the effort of war. In 1779, it takes up more important duty as a member of the safety advice, which, with the governor, controls all the military actions of the State.

Drafting of the Constitution

When the Constitutional Convention meets in Philadelphia in 1787, Ellsworth once again represents Connecticut and takes an active share with the process. During the debate and the Great compromise, it proposes that the legislative representation remains attached to the state, as in the Articles of the Confederation. It also leaves its mark by an amendment aiming at changing the national word by United States . Thereafter, United States will be the title given to the government by convention.

Ellsworth forms also part of the charged commission to write the first draft of the Constitution. Ellsworth favorable to the Three-fifths is compromised (Compromised of the three fifths) concerning the census of the slaves but he is opposed to the abolition of the trade of slaves with the foreigner. Although it leaves convention at the end of August and that it does not sign the final document, it exhorts with its approval as of its return in Connecticut and writes the Letters off has Landholder in order to promote its ratification.

Senator

Ellsworth is one of the two first senators of Connecticut between 1789 and 1796. The Senate, it chairs the commission which defines the framework of the federal legal organization and allows to solve the practical details allowing the existence of the new government. In the Congresses, Ellsworth defines the framework of measurements éaglement regulating the admission of the North Carolina within the Union, proposes the concept of not-relation which will force Rhode Island to join to it, draft the law on the consular service and is member of the charged commission studied the plan of Alexander Hamilton on the national debt and for the incorporation of the First Bank off the United States.

End of a career

In spring of 1796, it is named |Chief Justice off the United States]] '' (at the same time Minister for justice and President of the Supreme court). He is also plenipotentiary representative of the United States in [[France]] between [[1799]] and [[1800]] during the establishment and of the signature of [[Treaty of Mortefontaine]]. On its return in America at the beginning of 1801, Ellsworth is withdrawn from the national policy and returns in Windsor. It will still be useful within the Council of the Governor of Connecticut until his death in 1807. It rests with the cemetery of the '' First Church '' of Windsor.
The two wire of Ellsworth will follow the way of their father to the service of the community. Henry Leavitt Ellsworth will become mayor of Hartford, then first police chief of Obvious '' U.S. Office '' (service of patents U.S.). His/her brother, William Wolcott Ellsworth, who will marry the girl of [[Noah Webster]] (of the famous dictionary), will become governor of Connecticut. ==Source== {{Translation/Reference|in|Oliver Ellsworth| }} {{Gate the United States of America}} [[Category: Birth in 1745|Ellsworth]] [[Category: Death in 1807|Ellsworth]] [[Category: Founding father of the United States of America|Ellsworth, Oliver]] [[Category: Judge at the Supreme court of the United States|Ellsworth, Oliver]] [[Category: History of the United States|Ellsworth, Oliver]] [[in: Oliver Ellsworth]] [[Pt: Oliver Ellsworth]] [[sv: Oliver Ellsworth

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