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David Brearley
Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey · 1789
David Brearley , Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. David Brearley Jr. (often misspelled as Brearly) (June 11, 1745 – August 16, 1790) was an American Founding Father, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, a delegate from New Jersey to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, which drafted the United States Constitution, a signer of the United States Constitution, and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of…
Education
- Read law
- College of New Jersey (now Princeton University)
Career
Private practice, Allentown, Pennsylvania, -1776; Continental Army, 1776-1779; Chief justice, Supreme Court of New Jersey, 1779-1789; Delegate, Federal Constitutional Convention, 1787
Biography
David Brearley Jr. (often misspelled as Brearly) (June 11, 1745 – August 16, 1790) was an American Founding Father, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, a delegate from New Jersey to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, which drafted the United States Constitution, a signer of the United States Constitution, and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of…
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