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See also:ELLSWORTH, See also:OLIVER (1745–1807) , See also:American statesman and jurist, was See also:horn at See also:Windsor, See also:Connecticut, on the 29th of See also:April 1745. He studied at Yale and See also:Princeton, graduating from the latter in 1766, studied See also:theology for a See also:year, then See also:law, and began to practise at See also:Hartford in 1771. He was See also:state's See also:attorney for Hartford See also:county from 1777 to 1785, and achieved extraordinary success at the See also:bar, amassing what was for his See also:day a large See also:fortune. From 1773 to 1775 he represented the See also:town of Windsor in the See also:general See also:assembly of Connecticut, and in the latter year became a member of the important See also:commission known as the " Pay Table," which supervised the See also:colony's expenditures
for military purposes during the See also:War of See also:Independence. In 1779 he again sat in the assembly, this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time representing Hartford. From 1777 to 1783 he was a member of the See also:Continental See also:Congress, and in this See also:body he served on three important committees, the marine See also:committee, the See also:board of See also:treasury, and the committee of appeals, the predecessors respectively of the See also:navy and treasury departments and the Supreme See also:Court under the Federal Constitution. From 178o to 1785 he was a member of the See also:governor's See also:council of Connecticut, which, with,the See also:lower See also:house before 1784 and alone from 1784 to 1807, constituted a supreme court of errors; and from 1785 to 1789 he was a See also:judge of the state See also:superior court. In 1787, with See also:Roger See also:Sherman and See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Samuel See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson (1727—1819), he was one of Connecticut's delegates to the constitutional See also:convention at See also:Philadelphia, in which his services were numerous and important. In particular, when disagreement seemed inevitable on the question of See also:representation, he, with Roger Sherman, proposed what is known as the " Connecticut See also:Compromise," by which the Federal legislature was made to consist of two houses, the upper having equal representation from each state, the lower being chosen on the basis of See also:population. Ellsworth also made a determined stand against a See also:national See also:paper currency. Being compelled to leave the convention before its See also:adjournment, he did not sign the See also:instrument, but used his See also:influence to secure its ratification by his native state. From 1789 to 1796 he was one of the first senators from Connecticut under the new Constitution. In the See also:senate he was looked upon as See also:President See also:Washington's See also:personal spokesman and as the See also:leader of the See also:Administration party. His most important service to his See also:country was without a doubt in connexion with the See also:establishment of the Federal judiciary. As chairman of the committee having the See also:matter in See also:charge, he drafted the See also:bill by the enactment of which the See also:system of Federal courts, almost as it is to-day, was established. He also took a leading See also:part in the senate in securing the passage of See also:laws for funding the national See also:debt, assuming the state debts and establishing a See also:United States See also:bank. It was Ellsworth who suggested to Washington the sending of See also:John See also:Jay to See also:England to negotiate a new treaty with See also:Great See also:Britain, and he probably did more than any other See also:man to induce the senate, despite widespread and violent opposition, to ratify that treaty when negotiated. By President Washington's See also:appointment he be-came See also:chief See also:justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in See also:March 1796, and in 1799 President John See also:- ADAMS
- ADAMS, ANDREW LEITH (1827-1882)
- ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS (1807-1886)
- ADAMS, HENRY (1838— )
- ADAMS, HENRY CARTER (1852— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT (i858— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT BAXTER (1850—1901)
- ADAMS, JOHN (1735–1826)
- ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY (1767-1848)
- ADAMS, SAMUEL (1722-1803)
- ADAMS, THOMAS (d. c. 1655)
- ADAMS, WILLIAM (d. 162o)
Adams sent him, with William Vans See also:- MURRAY
- MURRAY (or MORAY), EARLS OF
- MURRAY (or MORAY), JAMES STUART, EARL OF (c. 1531-1570)
- MURRAY (or MORAY), SIR ROBERT (c. 1600-1673)
- MURRAY, ALEXANDER STUART (1841-1904)
- MURRAY, DAVID (1849– )
- MURRAY, EUSTACE CLARE GRENVILLE (1824–1881)
- MURRAY, JAMES (c. 1719-1794)
- MURRAY, JOHN
- MURRAY, JOHN (1778–1820)
- MURRAY, LINDLEY (1745–1826)
- MURRAY, LORD GEORGE (1694–1760)
- MURRAY, SIR JAMES AUGUSTUS HENRY (1837– )
- MURRAY, SIR JOHN (1841– )
Murray (1762—1803) and William R. Davie (1756-1820), to negotiate a new treaty with See also:France. It was largely through the influence of Ellsworth, who took the See also:principal part in the negotiations, that See also:Napoleon consented to a convention, of the 3oth of See also:September 1800, which secured for citizens of the United States their See also:ships captured by France but not Yet condemned as prizes, provided for freedom of See also:commerce between the two nations, stipulated that " See also:free ships shall give a freedom to goods," and contained provisions favourable to neutral commerce. While he was abroad, failing See also:health compelled him (1800) to resign the chief-justiceship, and after some months in England he returned to See also:America in 1801. In 1803 he was again elected to the governor's council, and in 1807, on the reorganization of the Connecticut judiciary, was appointed chief justice of the new Supreme Court. He never took See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, however, but died at his See also:home in Windsor on the 27th of See also:November 1807.
See W. G. See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
Brown's Oliver Ellsworth (New See also:York, 1905), an excellent See also:biography. There is also an appreciative See also:account of Ellsworth's See also:life and See also:work in H. C. See also:Lodge's A Fighting See also:Frigate, and Other Essays and Addresses (New York, 1902), which contains in an appendix an interesting See also:letter by Senator See also:George F. See also:Hoar concerning Ellsworth's work in the constitutional convention.
End of Article: ELLSWORTH, OLIVER (1745–1807)
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