George Clymer was an American politician, abolitionist and Founding Father of the United States, one of only six founders who signed both the Declaration of Independence and US Constitution.
19 Facts About George Clymer
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George Clymer attended the Continental Congress and served in political office until the end of his life.
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George Clymer was a Framer of the Constitution where he attempted unsuccessfully to regulate the importation of slaves.
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George Clymer was himself a minor slave owner, at least briefly when seven years old through inheritance.
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George Clymer was a patriot and leader in the demonstrations in Philadelphia resulting from the Tea Act and the Stamp Act.
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George Clymer accepted the command as a leader of a volunteer corps belonging to General John Cadwalader's brigade.
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George Clymer shared the responsibility of being treasurer of the Continental Congress with Michael Hillegas.
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George Clymer served on several committees during his first congressional term and was sent with Sampson Mathews to inspect the northern army at Fort Ticonderoga on behalf of Congress in the fall of 1776.
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George Clymer resigned from Congress in 1777 and in 1780 was elected to a seat in the Pennsylvania Legislature.
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George Clymer was re-elected to the Pennsylvania legislature in 1784 and represented his state at the Constitutional Convention in 1787.
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George Clymer was elected to the first US Congress in 1789.
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George Clymer was the first president of The Philadelphia Bank and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and vice-president of the Philadelphia Agricultural Society.
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When Congress passed a bill imposing a duty on spirits distilled in the United States in 1791, George Clymer was placed as head of the excise department in the state of Pennsylvania.
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George Clymer is considered the benefactor of Indiana Borough, as it was he who donated the property for a county seat in Indiana County, Pennsylvania.
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George Clymer was buried at the Friends Burying Ground in Trenton, New Jersey.
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George Clymer is known to have been a slave owner to what degree is uncertain, although it is known his father, grandfather and brother were minor slave owners.
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George Clymer was on the committee to draft a Slave Trade Compromise to postpone the slave trade decision until 1808.
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George Clymer supported an "export tax", which was a way to indirectly tax slavery, and which like the slave trade question was opposed by southern states.
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In Reading, Pennsylvania, George Clymer Street is named in his honor.