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cessful professional career great justice. He whose autograph on the immortal document died in the same year with Washington; rivals in boldness of penmanship that of but while the latter died childless, Patrick John Hancock — was a lawyer; and, who, Henry was by two wives father of fifteen after studying jurisprudence in both Paris children, some of whose descendants also and London practiced about ten years in his followed their ancestor's profession and native Maryland until the era attracted his distinctly showed the Patrick Henry blood. attention to patriotic politics. He was the Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, who while last survivor of the fifty-five signers of the an ambassador to the French government, Declaration of Independence, and he died an framed the sentence object of the great that has become est popular venera historical, " Millions tion within four years for defense but not of becoming a cen one cent for tribute,'' tenarian, at the time naturally went into President Jackson the profession of the was besieging the law because his United States bank. father became chief Gen. John Sullivan justice of South of Revolutionary Carolina. He was military fame, would first scholar in the undoubtedly, if given celebrated West the choice, have pre minster school, then ferred to be remem at Oxford, and bered as a lawyer and finally admitted into as a judge rather the Temple, London. than as a general, It was in 1769 that although he was one he began the prac of the first briga tice of his profession diers commissioned in Charleston. Whileunder Washington; student in the Lon to soon become ma don Temple he had jor general; to super OLIVER ELLSWORTH. dared to write a sede Arnold in Cana thesis against the da and to serve in Stamp Act; and, of course, he soon the disastrous battle of Long Island; to became a patriot soldier and rose to be a be taken prisoner and be exchanged; and finally to participate in many actions only general. When peace was declared he re to resign because harshly criticised by the sumed his profession and attained legal emi nence; soon he brought his legal experience board of war. On the eve of the establish ment of the Republic he was governor of to the aid of framing, as a delegate, the Fed eral Constitution. Charleston traditions and New Hampshire, and next, judge of its Fed eral district. Born in Maine, he was edu the early South Carolina reports largely com memorate his professional skill; for he lived cated and studied law in Durham, New into the administration of Monroe and died Hampshire, which sent him to the ContiI nental Congress. In an address before an octogenarian. It is not widely known that Declaration- Dartmouth College, on one occasion, Rufus signer Charles Carroll of Carrollton — I Choate paid a fine tribute to Sullivan's