Talk:John Witherspoon

message: Witherspoon was the only clergyman among the signers. Should we also add that he was the only educator, the only native of Scotland, and the only one who was well known in Britain before emigrating? Dynzmoar 10:45, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Educator, perhaps; although teaching for a year in young adulthood was fairly common, so it may not be true (and there's Jefferson and UVa). The others; probably not. But we should keep clergyman. Septentrionalis 01:53, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other "onlys" 

message: Reese Witherspoon is a descendant of John Witherspoon, is the actor John Witherspoon a descendant of slaves owned by the Witherspoons? Or are there other, non related Witherspoon families from which he may have been descended?
I regularly come to this page and change the assertion made by friends or supporters of Reese that she is a descendant of John Witherspoon, the Signer of the Declaration of Independence.  Someone always changes the non-calim back to a claim.  Repeated attempts to contact Reeses to verify the claim have been met by silence.  She may be a descendant of a John Witherspoon, but as far as we can tell, she is not a descendant of John, the Signer.  I have a pretty complete family tree of the Signer's Descendants and she is not on that tree.  I welcome the opportunity to be proven incorrect.
Jim Alexander, GGGGGrandson of John, the Signer. Signersbuff (talk) 02:15, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Go ahead and alter the page if you like, however the fact remains that everyone cannot claim to be a descendant of this specific Witherspoon. Gautam  22:51, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Descendants 

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message: I want to question the following sentence in the "Legacy" section:  "The limited-government philosophy of most of these men was due in large measure to Witherspoon's influence."  Is this referring to Witherspoon's views concerning the government of the Presbyterian Church or the government of the United States?  The rest of the article makes no mention of Witherspoon's philosophy of government, so I will suggest that either some supporting discussion be offered or that this sentence be deleted. Other Choices (talk) 03:22, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  legacy: "limited government philosophy"? 

message: She was a Liberty Ship, though I know very little about her career. The article refers to her being part of Convoy PQ17, but doesnt clarify that she was specifically one of the 24 out of 35 ships sunk in that convoy. She is mentioned as such in [PQ17 article]. Also, strictly speaking, she was sunk east and south of Bear Island, though I don't know the precise co-ordinates; but she was defnitely in the Barents Sea, which is part of the Arctic Ocean.Fleeming (talk) 12:57, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  SS John Witherspoon 

message: John Witherspoon's American Revolution by Gideon Mailer, University of North Carolina Press, 2017 Jodi.a.schneider (talk) 00:08, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  New book 

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message: I added information describing that John Witherspoon was the 6th President of Princeton University to the infobox and it was reverted by FlightTime. Why do we need consensus for this? The article already mentions that he is the 6th President of Princeton. What is the disagreement for this edit?
Agpagpagp (talk) 18:46, 26 August 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: My concern is that you changed the infobox from Infobox person to Infobox officeholder, this change (IMO) should be discussed by editors who regularly watch this page.  - FlightTime (open channel) 19:00, 26 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: President of Princeton University in Infobox

message: I think we should change the infobox to from Infobox person to Infobox officeholder to match the other Presidents of Princeton University (only two other Princeton Presidents are Infobox person, the other 17 are Infobox officeholder). This would look like this. Thoughts? Agpagpagp (talk) 19:46, 26 August 2017 (UTC)
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message: The legacy section seems to be just a giant quote from a dissertation, and much of the information doesn’t really belong in that part of the article. 140.180.240.170 (talk) 21:44, 17 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Legacy 

message: An inventory of Witherspoon's possessions taken at his death included "two slaves... valued at a hundred dollars each".
:Not notable. 
Witherspoon… lectured against the abolition of slavery.
:A little detail about the content of his lectures, and where they were delivered, might justify the inclusion of this statement. Otherwise it’s just a diversity rubber-stamp. It is simply not notable, in itself, that people of that time who could afford slaves would own them. Valetude (talk) 08:19, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability 

message: This article currently says both that he opposed the philosophical influence of Francis Hutcheson, and that he was influenced by the ethical philosophy of Francis Hutcheson. These claims are by no means mutually exclusive and may both be accurate. However, they deserve further elaboration. Daask (talk) 11:52, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Francis Hutcheson