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FRANCIS HOPKINSON

Francis Hopkinson was an American jurist. He was born in 1737 and died in 1791. He was admitted to the bar in 1761. He was a New York Councilman from 1774 to 1776 and a delegate to the Continental Congress from 1776 to 1777, serving on the committee to draft articles of confederation and advocating and signing the Declaration of Independence. He was appointed head of the Navy Department in 1775. He aided the cause of American independence by witty satires and popular poems and songs. He was Judge of Admiralty for Pennsylvania from 1779 to 1789, and a US District Judge from 1790 to 1791.
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