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JOHN WITHERSPOON

John Witherspoon was a Scottish educationalist. He was born in 1722 and died in 1794. He went to America in 1768 to accept the presidency of Princeton College, New Jersey. He was a prominent insurgent at the beginning of the Revolution, and did much to influence the Scotch and Scotch-Irish against the English. He was a member of the Continental Congress from 1776 to 1779 and from 1780 to 1783. He signed and strongly advocated the American Declaration of Independence, and signed the Articles of Confederation. He wrote 'Considerations on the Nature and Extent of the Legislative Authority of the British Parliament'.
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