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William Paterson: A Brief Biography

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William Paterson was born December 24, 1745 in County Antrim, Ireland. He served as the state’s attorney general from 1776 to 1783. When he was a toddler, he and his family moved to America and around 1750 they moved and settled in Princeton, New Jersey, there his father found success as a merchant. William was educated in private schools. In 1763, he earned his bachelor’s degree from the college of New Jersey. Then three years later he earned a masters degree. He stayed in Princeton so that he could study law with Richard Stockton, who later was to sign the Declaration of Independence. Paterson joined the vanguard of the New Jersey Patriots when the Independence war broke out. He served in the provincial congress, the constitutional convention,
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