William Samuel Johnson

William Samuel Johnson (October 7, 1727 – November 14, 1819) was an American Founding Father and statesman. He was the only man to attend all of the four founding American Congresses: the Stamp Act Congress in 1765, the Continental Congress in 1785–1787, the United States Constitutional Convention in 1787 where he was chairman of the Committee of Style that drafted the final version of the United States Constitution, and as a senator from Connecticut in the first United States Congress in 1789-1791. He also served as the third president of Columbia University (then known as Columbia College).

William Samuel Johnson

Office created

Roger Sherman

George Clinton (acting)

Charles Henry Wharton

October 7, 1727
Stratford, Connecticut Colony

November 14, 1819(1819-11-14) (aged 92)
Stratford, Connecticut, U.S.

Christ Episcopal Church Cemetery, Stratford

American

Pro-Administration

Anne Beach^[1]

Elizabeth Johnson

Samuel Johnson
Charity Floyd Nicoll

Daniel Verplanck (son-in-law)
Gulian C. Verplanck (grandson)

Yale College

Politician, clergyman

Connecticut Colonial Militia

Colonel

This article incorporates from "William Samuel Johnson" in Soldiers and Statesman by Robert K. Wright Jr. and Morris J. MacGregor Jr. United States Army Center of Military History.

public domain material

United States Congress. . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

"William Samuel Johnson (id: J000182)"

Graff, Nancy Price. Visible Layers of Time: A Perspective on the History and Architecture of Johnson Vermont. The University of Vermont, Historic Preservation Program: 1990.

McCaughey, Elizabeth P. "William Samuel Johnson, The Loyal Whig" in William M. Fowler Jr. and Wallace Coyle, eds. American Revolution: Changing Perspectives (1979), pp. 69–102

Beardsley, E. Edwards.

Life and Times of William Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1876)

at Find a Grave

William Samuel Johnson

, 1937 biography in PDF format

William Samuel Johnson