Thomas Mifflin
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Thomas Mifflin (January 10, 1744 – January 20, 1800) was an American merchant, soldier, and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He served in a variety of roles during and after the American Revolution, several of which qualify him to be counted among the Founding Fathers.
He was the first Governor of Pennsylvania, serving from 1790 to 1799. Born in Philadelphia, Mifflin became a merchant after graduating from the College of Philadelphia.
He joined the Continental Army after serving in the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly and the Continental Congress.
During the American Revolutionary War, he was an aide to General George Washington and the Continental Army's Quartermaster General, rising to the rank of major general.
Mifflin returned to Congress in 1782 and was elected President of the Continental Congress in 1783.
He served as Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1785 to 1787, then as President of the Pennsylvania Supreme Executive Council from 1788 to 1790. Mifflin was a delegate to the 1787 Philadelphia Convention and signed the United States Constitution.
He then presided over the committee that wrote Pennsylvania's own constitution and he became the first governor after the ratification of the constitution.
Mifflin left office as governor in 1799, and died the following year.
Early life and family
Mifflin was born January 10, 1744, in Philadelphia, in the Province of Pennsylvania. He was the son of John Mifflin and Elizabeth Bagnall. His great-grandfather John Mifflin Jr. (1661–1714) was born in Warminster, Wiltshire, England and settled in the Province of Pennsylvania.
In 1760, Mifflin graduated from the College of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania) and joined the mercantile business of William Biddle. After returning from a trip to Europe in 1765, he established a commercial business partnership with his brother, George Mifflin.
He married a second cousin, Sarah Morris, on March 4, 1767. Their daughter Emily Mifflin married Joseph Hopkinson, the son of Francis Hopkinson. After Sarah's death in 1790, Emily became her father's hostess and a family source references a total of four daughters in the family, "all beautiful women." A source indicates that Sarah "had no children of her own."
Personal life
Although Mifflin's family had been Quakers for four generations, he was expelled from the Religious Society of Friends when he joined the Continental Army, because his involvement with the military contradicted that faith's pacifistic doctrines. Mifflin became a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1768 and served for two years as its secretary. He served from 1773 to 1791 as a trustee of the College and Academy of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania), including two years as treasurer (1773–1775).
Political career
Mifflin was a member of the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly (1772–1776) prior to American independence. He served two terms in the Continental Congress (1774–17774 and 1782–1784), including seven months (November 1783 to June 1784) as the body's presiding officer.
Mifflin's most significant role as president was to accept on behalf of Congress the resignation of General George Washington on December 23, 1783. Congress's importance plummetted so quickly that Mifflin was unable to convince the states to ratify the Treaty of Paris, which took place on January 14, 1784 at the Maryland State House in Annapolis. On May 7, 1784, Thomas Jefferson was named as a minister to France, and he then appointed Colonel Josiah Harmar to be the head of the First American Regiment.
Mifflin descended on the United States Constitutional Convention in 1787 as a delegate. He served as a signatory to the Continental Association and the Constitution. He served in the house of Commons (1785-1788). He was a member of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Supreme Executive Council and was elected president of the Council on November 5, 1788, overtaking Benjamin Franklin. On November 11, 1789, he was unanimously elected to the presidency. He presided over the commission that drafted Pennsylvania's 1790 state constitution. The Executive Council had been dissolved in the paper, and it was replaced by a single governor.
Mifflin became Pennsylvania's last president and the Commonwealth's first governor on December 21, 1790. He served in the latter office until December 17, 1799, when Thomas McKean took over. He then returned to the state legislature, where he served until his death the following month.