death_date birth_date signature residence term_end death_place profession term_start spouse image name resting_place predecessor birth_place party office successor religion article_title
21 september 1798 18 september 1733 george read signature.svg new castle , delaware september 17 , 1777 21 , 1798 march 31 , 1778 december new castle , delaware lawyer september 2 , 1774 30 , 1793 october 20 , 1777 august gertrude ross till georgeread.gif george read immanuel episcopal churchyard , new castle william killen thomas mckean new office cecil county , province of maryland federalist chief delaware continental congressman from delaware justice of delaware united states senator president of kensey johns caesar rodney caesar rodney episcopalian george read -lrb- u.s. statesman -rrb-

george read -lrb- u.s. statesman -rrb-

george read -lrb- ; september 18 , 1733 -- september 21 , 1798 -rrb- was an american lawyer and politician from new castle in new castle county , delaware .
he was a signer of the declaration of independence , a continental congressman from delaware , a delegate to the u.s. constitutional convention of 1787 , president of delaware , and a member of the federalist party , who served as u.s. senator from delaware and chief justice of delaware .
read was one of only two statesmen who signed all three of the great state papers on which the country 's history is based : the original petition to the king of the congress of 1774 , the declaration of independence and the constitution of the united states .
