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GEORGE READ

George Read was an American politician. He was born in 1733 and died in 1798. He was a signer of the American Declaration of Independence, but before the war was an Attorney-General of Delaware and member of the Legislature. He wrote the noted address to George III, and was a leading member of Congress. He was a delegate to the Annapolis Convention of 1786, and to the Federal Constitutional Convention of the following year. From 1789 to 1793 he was US Senator from Delaware, and Chief Justice of the State from 1793 until his death.
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