George Read
BIRTH
Sep 18, 1733
Cecil County, Maryland
DEATH
September 21, 1798
New Castle, Delaware
FAMILY
MOTHER:
Gertrude Ross Read
(1733-1802)
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Read, George
(1733-1798)
George Read (September 18, 1733 – September 21, 1798) was an American politician from New Castle in New Castle County, Delaware. He was 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. In addition, Read served as U.S. Senator from Delaware and chief justice of Delaware.
Read was a Founding Father of the United States, one of only two statesmen who signed four of the great state papers on which the country's founding is based: Petition to the King and Continental Association, both passed by the Congress of 1774, as well as the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and Constitution of the United States in 1787.
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BROTHER
William Read
(1767-1846)
BROTHER
John Read
(1920-2006)
WIFE
Gertrude Ross Read
(1733-1802)
William Read
(1767-1846)
John Read
(1920-2006)
Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Home of George Read marker | 42 The Strand, New Castle, DE 19720 | MARKER |
DIED:
New Castle, Delaware
Sep 21, 1798
George Read was born on Sep 18, 1733 in Cecil County, Maryland. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies George Read with work or public activity as a statesman, lawyer. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. George Read died on Sep 21, 1798 in New Castle, Delaware. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.