William Paterson

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William Paterson was an American statesman, New Jersey governor, and U.S. Supreme Court justice who played a key role in drafting the U.S. Constitution, including proposing the New Jersey Plan.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf American politician
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Founding Father of the United States
Governor of New Jersey
human
burialPlace Albany Rural Cemetery
child William Bell Paterson
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of Great Britain
United States of America
dateOfBirth 1745-12-24
dateOfDeath 1806-09-09
educatedAt The College of New Jersey
surface form: College of New Jersey

Princeton University
familyName Paterson
fieldOfWork constitutional law
state governance
givenName William
honoredBy William Paterson University
immigratedTo British America
memberOfPoliticalParty Federalists
surface form: Federalist Party
namesakeOf Paterson, New Jersey
William Paterson University
nativeLanguage English
nominatedBy George Washington
notableWork New Jersey Plan
occupation judge
lawyer
statesman
participantIn American Revolutionary War era politics
Constitutional Convention
surface form: Constitutional Convention (1787)
placeOfBirth County Antrim
surface form: County Antrim, Ireland

Kingdom of Ireland
placeOfDeath Albany
surface form: Albany, New York, United States
positionHeld Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Attorney General
surface form: Attorney General of New Jersey

Governor of New Jersey
United States Senator
surface form: United States Senator from New Jersey

delegate to the Constitutional Convention
delegate to the Continental Congress
member of the New Jersey Legislative Council
proposed New Jersey Plan
religion Presbyterianism
represented New Jersey, United States
surface form: New Jersey
sexOrGender male
signatoryTo United States Constitution
spouse Cornelia Bell
workLocation New Jersey, United States
surface form: New Jersey

New York City
surface form: New York, New York

Philadelphia
surface form: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Paterson, New Jersey namedAfter William Paterson
Paterson, New Jersey namedAfter William Paterson
this entity surface form: William Paterson, 2nd Governor of New Jersey
Paterson, New Jersey namedAfter William Paterson
this entity surface form: William Paterson, signer of the U.S. Constitution
New Jersey Plan proposedBy William Paterson