page_title: William Jackson (secretary)
section_title: Constitutional Convention
hierarchical_section_title: William Jackson (secretary) / Constitutional Convention
caption_attribution_description: Čeština: George Washington předsedající Filadelfskému ústavnímu konventu (stojí na stupínku). English: George Washington presiding the Philadelphia Convention Depicted people&#58; &#32;George Washington , Alexander Hamilton and Benjamin Franklin &#32;– among others: see image notes or File:KeySceneAtTheSigningOfTheConstitutionOfTheUnitedStates.jpg.
context_page_description: William Jackson was a figure in the American Revolution, most noteworthy as the secretary to the United States Constitutional Convention. He also served with distinction in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. After the war he served as one of President George Washington's personal secretaries.
context_section_description: As an impoverished law student, in 1787, Jackson wrote to Washington applying for the post as secretary to the Philadelphia Convention. On the Convention's first day of business, May 25, 1787, Alexander Hamilton nominated Jackson to the post, and the delegates chose him over William Temple Franklin, Benjamin Franklin's grandson, despite the latter's experience serving as his grandfather's secretary during the Treaty of Paris negotiations.
  As the Convention secretary, Jackson had a number of duties, including maintaining the secrecy of the Convention's proceedings, keeping official minutes, and destroying many of the proceedings' other records. He signed the document "Attest William Jackson Secretary" to attest to four corrections which had been made to the document. With his signature Jackson became the fortieth signer of the U.S. Constitution.
  Jackson was sent to the Congress of the Confederation, assembled in New York City, with a copy of the Constitution, and was honored to read it out to the Congress just days after the signing, on September 20, 1787.
caption: Jackson (standing, center, in red) features prominently in Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States by Howard Chandler Christy (1940)
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