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William Paterson (December 24, 1745 – September 9, 1806) was an American statesman, lawyer, jurist, and signer of the United States Constitution. He was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, the second governor of New Jersey, and a Founding Father of the United States .
William Paterson (born December 24, 1745, County Antrim, Ireland—died September 9, 1806, Albany, New York, U.S.) was an Irish-born American jurist, one of the framers of the U.S. Constitution, U.S. senator (1789–90), and governor of New Jersey (1790–93).
Paterson was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and, as a Senator in the First Federal Congress, he helped to draft the Judiciary Act of 1789, which established the federal court system. He left the Senate in 1790 to become Governor and Chancellor of New Jersey.
US Supreme Court Justice William Paterson, who presided in several of those trials, has been represented as a partisan Federalist judge whose directed charge to the jury resulted in a treason verdict in two of those cases (U.S. v. Mitchell and U.S. v. Vigol).
Justice William Paterson joined the U.S. Supreme Court on March 11, 1793, replacing Justice Thomas Johnson. Paterson was born on December 24, 1745 in Ireland, but his family came to Pennsylvania soon afterward.
William Paterson (December 24, 1745 – September 9, 1806) was an American statesman, lawyer, jurist, and signer of the United States Constitution. He was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, the second governor of New Jersey, and a Founding Father of the United States.
Justice William Paterson signed the Constitution, served as a governor of New Jersey and served on the Supreme Court. Paterson was born in Ireland in 1745 and moved to the United States at two years old.
