威廉·帕特森，国会，新泽西州(1745-1806)

帕特森,威廉一位来自新泽西州的代表和参议员;1745年12月24日生于爱尔兰安特里姆郡;1747年随父母移民到美国，在宾夕法尼亚州的纽卡斯尔定居;在1750年定居于新泽西州普林斯顿之前，他曾在殖民地四处迁徙;就读私立学校;1763年毕业于新泽西学院(后来的普林斯顿大学);学习法律;1768年获律师资格，1769年在新泽西州新布罗姆利开业;1775-1776年，省级代表和秘书;1776-1777年，国家立法委员会成员; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1776; attorney general of New Jersey 1776-1783, when he resigned; moved to Raritan, N.J., in 1779; elected as a Delegate to the Continental Congress in 1780, but declined, owing to his duties as attorney general; moved to New Brunswick, N.J., in 1783; delegate to the Federal Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 and one of the signers of the Constitution; again elected as a Delegate to the Continental Congress in 1787, but declined; elected to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1789, to November 13, 1790, when he resigned, having been elected Governor of New Jersey; reelected Governor and served until 1793, when he resigned to become an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and served until his death in Albany, N.Y., September 9, 1806; interment in the Van Rensselaer Manor House vault, near Albany, N.Y.; manor house destroyed around 1900; reinterred in Van Rensselaer lot, Albany Rural Cemetery, Albany, N.Y.

参考书目

美国传记词典；Haskett, Richard。"威廉·帕特森，法律顾问"博士论文，普林斯顿大学，1952年;奥康纳,约翰·E。威廉·帕特森:律师和政治家．新不伦瑞克:罗格斯大学出版社，1979年。

资料来源:《美国国会传记名录》，1771年至今