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Gouverneur Morris

By Theodore Roosevelt

2020-07-08 19:15:33

Gouverneur Morris wrote the Constitution of the United States with Madison and is properly known as its father. Born into a wealthy household, he slowly and reluctantly joined the American Revolution and became close friends with the father of his co ... Read more
Gouverneur Morris wrote the Constitution of the United States with Madison and is properly known as its father. Born into a wealthy household, he slowly and reluctantly joined the American Revolution and became close friends with the father of his country, George Washington.............. Two generations ago the average American biographer was certainly a marvel of turgid and aimless verbosity; and the reputations of our early statesmen have in no way proved their vitality more clearly than by surviving their entombment in the pages of the authors who immediately succeeded them. No one of the founders of the Constitution has suffered more in this respect than has he who was perhaps the most brilliant, although by no means the greatest, of the whole number,—Gouverneur Morris. Less

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Print pages358
PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1517698898
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), often referred to as Teddy Roosevelt or his initials T. R., was an American statesman, politician, conservationist, naturalist, and write...

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