George Clymer

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George Clymer (March 16, 1739 – January 23, 1813) was an American politician and Founding Father of the United States.

He was one of the first Patriots to call for complete independence from Britain.

Clymer, a Pennsylvania senator, was, alongside five others, a signatory to both the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution.

He attended the Continental Congress and served in political office until the end of his life.

Early life and family

Clymer was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 16, 1739. He was apprenticed to his maternal aunt and uncle, Hannah and William Coleman, before being orphaned. Elizabeth Meredith was married on March 22, 1765. The Reverend Richard Peters, Clymer's letter to the rector of Christ Church, states that he has never fathered a child; no one's nor mother's names have been given; neither the child nor mother's name has been given. Clymer and his wife had nine children, four of whom died in infancy. Henry (born 1767), his oldest living son, married Philadelphia socialite Mary Willing in 1794. Although John Meredith was killed in the Whiskey Rebellion in 1787 at the age of 18, Margaret, George, and Ann survived to adulthood.

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Career

Clymer was a patriot and leader in the demonstrations in Philadelphia resulting from the Tea Act and the Stamp Act. Clymer accepted the command as a leader of a volunteer corps belonging to General John Cadwalader's brigade. In 1759, he was inducted as a member of the original American Philosophical Society. He became a member of the Philadelphia Committee of Safety in 1773 and was elected to the Continental Congress 1776–1780. Clymer shared the responsibility of being treasurer of the Continental Congress with Michael Hillegas. He served on several committees during his first congressional term and was sent with Sampson Mathews to inspect the northern army at Fort Ticonderoga on behalf of Congress in the fall of 1776. When Congress fled Philadelphia in the face of Sir Henry Clinton's threatened occupation, Clymer stayed behind with George Walton and Robert Morris. Clymer's business ventures during and after war served to increase his wealth. In 1779 and 1780, Clymer and his son Meredith engaged in a lucrative trade with Sint Eustatius. Although not partial to the merchant business, Clymer continued in business with his father-in-law and brother-in-law until 1782.

He resigned from Congress in 1777 and in 1780 was elected to a seat in the Pennsylvania Legislature. In 1782, he was sent on a tour of the southern states in a vain attempt to get the legislatures to pay up on subscriptions due to the central government. He was re-elected to the Pennsylvania legislature in 1784 and represented his state at the Constitutional Convention in 1787. He was elected to the first U.S. Congress in 1789.

He was the first president of the Philadelphia Bank and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and vice-president of the Philadelphia Agricultural Society. When Congress passed a bill imposing a duty on spirits distilled in the United States in 1791, Clymer was placed as head of the excise department in the state of Pennsylvania. He was also one of the commissioners to negotiate a treaty with the Creek Indian confederacy at Colerain, Georgia on June 29, 1796. He is considered the benefactor of Indiana Borough, as it was he who donated the property for a county seat in Indiana County, Pennsylvania.

Clymer died on January 23, 1813. He was buried at the Friends Burying Ground in Trenton, New Jersey.

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