10 Facts About James McClurg

James McClurg was an American physician and Founding Father who served as a delegate to the Philadelphia Convention which drafted the United States Constitution in 1787.

James McClurg, who was a surgeon in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, is believed to have owned a series of slaves over the course of his lifetime.

James McClurg was one of the most distinguished physicians in the colonies.

James McClurg was a graduate of the College of William and Mary, where he later served as a professor, and received his medical degree from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland in 1770.

James McClurg served as a surgeon of the American navy in Hampton, Virginia, during the American Revolutionary War and was appointed Physician General and Director of Hospitals for Virginia's military forces in 1777.

James McClurg achieved renown in Richmond for his efforts to stop various epidemics, including the yellow fever in 1798.

James McClurg was the first honoree of the Philadelphia Journal of Medical and Physical Sciences.

In 1820 and 1821 James McClurg was president of Virginia's State Medical Society.

James McClurg was born in Elizabeth City County, Virginia, in 1746 to Walter McClurg, a British naval surgeon.

Widowed in 1818, McClurg left his practice to his nephew, James Drew McCaw, who was a physician.