PATERSON, WILLIAM
\pˈatəsən], \pˈatəsən], \p_ˈa_t_ə_s_ə_n]\
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(1745-1806), was a New Jersey Delegate to the Continental Congress from 1780 to 1781. He was a member of the Federal Convention of 1787, and proposed the preservation of State sovereignty, in what was called the " New Jersey Plan." He was a U. S. Senator from 1789 to 1790, Governor of New Jersey from 1791 to 1793, and a Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court from 1793 to 1806.
By John Franklin Jameson
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