George Clymer

George Clymer was born in Philadelphia, on March 16,.He was an American politician and Founding Father. He was one of the first Patriots to advocate complete independence from Britain. As a Pennsylvania representative, Clymer was, along with only four others, a signatory of both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. He died January 23 1813



He was a patriot and leader in the demonstrations in Philadelphia resulting from the Tea Act and the Stamp Act. He entered the Continental Congress as the successor to John Dickinson, George served in Congress from July 20, 1776, to September of 1777. With Wilson and others of the Pennsylvania members of Congress, he signed the Declaration along with John Hancock, Roger Sherman, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and more. A signer of the United States Constitution along with Jame McHenry and Jonathan Dayton. Clymer also helped write the US Constitution, becoming one of only six men who signed both the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution. The six men who signed both documents are George Read, Roger Sherman, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Morris, George Clymer, and James Wilson. He was the first treasurer of the central government and worked with Robert Morris in planning the financial affairs of the United colonies which was then a treasury without funds. While no orator, this George Clymer was well informed, a witty conversationalist, and a good writer. At the time of the signing of the Declaration, George Clymer was a prosperous merchant who was praised as one of the wisest of all delegates, excepting Benjamin Franklin.





In 1777, Congress asked Clymer to investigate conditions on the Pennsylvania frontier, and he traveled to Fort Pitt (now Pittsburgh), where he made the first peace treaty between Congress and the Cherokee and Creek Indians of Georgia during the last period of George Washington's administration. At the Constitutional Convention, Clymer served on those committees concerned with the military, commercial, and financial powers and responsibilities of the new government. An advocate of strong central government, he supported the Federalist position taken by Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison He entered the Continental Congress as the successor to John Dickinson.



His sympathy was with the people who were seeking their freedom. Clymer was opposed to England's tax plan because he, as a large and successful business man, was compelled to pay these taxes. He left Philadelphia and went to Boston to gain knowledge, returning to Philadelphia thoroughly filled with a desire for the independence of America. In 1785 he became a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature and served until 1788. During this time he, with the Quakers, fought against capital punishment for many offences, and against the public expose of criminals. He also was a member of the Federal Constitution Convention. Clymer was sent to the first Congress under the Constitution he had helped to create, as the first representative of a district that included the territory later represented in Congress by James Buchanan, who later became the fifteenth President of the United States.



I believe that George Clymer should be recognized more in U.S. history because he is one out of six to sign the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, and not only did he sign the Constitution he helped write it too. So some of the laws we have today may been from Clymer himself. He also made the first peace treaty with Indians, which helped out allot in the war with them. George Clymer, should be talked about more in history classes because of his contributions too history. He should be recognized at the level as Washington or a little bit under. He may not have been in the war or a president, but he wrote some of the laws we abide by.