READ, GEORGE
\ɹˈiːd], \ɹˈiːd], \ɹ_ˈiː_d]\
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(1733-1798), a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was before the war 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 U.S. Senator from Delaware, and Chief Justice of the State from 1793 until his death. (Life by Read.)
By John Franklin Jameson
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Snake's-head
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