John Laurance: The Immigrant Founding Father America Never Knew, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 108, Part 2) (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781606180822)

This long overdue biography of English-born N.Y. lawyer John Laurance (1760-1810) restores an important missing piece to the founding narrative of the U.S. It describes the middling Cornish emigre's against-all-odds passage to Federalist America's governing inner circle. Laurance spent 5 wartime years as Gen. Washington's "courtroom Baron von Steuben" and was battlefield father of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate Corps. Never defeated for electoral office, Col. Laurance spoke as N.Y.C.'s post-war pro-mercantile voice in the Confederation Congress, state legislature, and both houses of the fledgling federal Congress. This biography casts fresh light on the rise and fall of America's first political Party, the Federalists. Illus.

Author: Kerith Marshall III Jones
ISBN-10: 1606180827
ISBN-13: 9781606180822
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2019
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.01lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.88d