James_Wadsworth_(jurist)

James Wadsworth (lawyer)

James Wadsworth (lawyer)

American politician

For other people named James Wadsworth, see James Wadsworth (disambiguation).

James Wadsworth III (July 8, 1730 – September 22, 1816) was an American lawyer from Durham, Connecticut.

After graduating from Yale College in 1748, he became clerk of Durham from 1756 to 1786.[1] Initially a brigadier general of the Connecticut militia during the Revolutionary War, after the death of David Wooster in 1777 he became the major general of militia and the second-highest ranked militia officer in the state.[2][3] After the war, he became a justice of the New Haven County Court of Common Pleas. He served as a delegate to the Continental Congress from 1783 to 1786, Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1784 to 1785, a member of the Connecticut Executive Council from 1785 to 1790, and as a judge of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors from 1787 to 1788.[1][4]

References

  1. [1]
    "Chapter Sketches, Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution" (PDF). 1901.
  2. [2]
    Hinman, Royal Ralph, ed. (1846). "James Wadsworth". A catalogue of the names of settlers of the Colony of Connecticut. Hartford: E. Gleason. pp. 303–304.
  3. [3]
    Wadsworth Family Collection Inventory — Connecticut State Library (Both his children having died in infancy, James Wadsworth (1730–1816) left no direct descendants but his brother James Noyes Wadsworth (1732–1786) founded a distinguished family and was the great-grandfather of the painter Wedworth Wadsworth.) Archived 2011-10-11 at the Wayback Machine
  4. [4]
    Day, Thomas (1809). Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Errors, of the State of Connecticut, in the years 1805, 1806, and 1807. Vol. 2. p. xii-xiii.


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