Nathaniel Gorham (born May 27, 1738 in Charlestown, Massachusetts; died June 11, 1796 in Charlestown, Massachusetts) was the fourteenth President of the United States Continental Congress, who held the role between June 6, 1786 and November 3, 1786.
There was extensive discussion in the Continental Congress concerning the length of the terms in the Senate as well as how to best turn over the membership. Nathaniel Gorham, Edmund Randolph and Hugh Williamson proposed different scenarios but it was Gorham who finally proposed the winning combination. The Senate would serve 6-year terms with a third of the membership turning over every two years.
As a direct desensant of Nathaniel Greene, I know that he was not from there. Nathaniel Greene He lived in Kentucky before the war, and lives in Georgia after the war.
When Nathaniel bacon led an rebellion against the governor of James town, because Nathaniel bacon let a raid on the native Americans and killed them and burned there home. He ask the Governor for help but he didn't help because he had no orders to do that. So Nathaniel held a rebellion. unfortunately he got hung for a punishment.
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Nathaniel Bacon did not found any colony. However, he did lead a rebellion (Bacon's Rebellion) in Colonial Virginia.
Nathaniel Gorham was born on May 27, 1738.
Nathaniel Gorham was born on May 27, 1738.
Nathaniel Gorham was 49 during the convention
Nathaniel Gorham was a Congregationalist. The Congregationalists were basically the Protestants in which each congregation independently runs its own affairs.
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He was a fedralist.
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Equal representation by population in a one house legislature.
I don't think he went to college. I know he was apprenticed to a merchant and that his education was minimal.
Nathaniel Gorham was generally opposed to the slave trade. He believed in the principle of equality and was against the institution of slavery, which included the trading of enslaved individuals. Gorham supported policies that aimed to limit or abolish the slave trade.