American Founding Father and politician (1748–1828)
This article is about the Founding Father of the United States. For the former president of Duke University, see William Preston Few.
William Few
Portrait by John Ramage
United States Senator from Georgia
In office March 4, 1789 – March 3, 1793
Succeeded by
James Jackson
Delegate from Georgia to the Confederation Congress
In office 1780 – 1782, 1786–1788
Personal details
Born
June 8, 1748 Baltimore County, Maryland
Died
July 16, 1828(1828-07-16) (aged 80) Fishkill-on-Hudson
Resting place
Saint Paul's Episcopal Church Cemetery, Augusta, Georgia
Spouse
Catherine Nicholson
(m. 1788)
Children
3
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William Few Jr. (June 8, 1748 – July 16, 1828) was an American Founding Father, lawyer, politician and jurist. He represented the U.S. state of Georgia at the Constitutional Convention and signed the U.S. Constitution. Few and James Gunn were the first U.S. Senators from Georgia.
Born into a poor yeoman farming family, Few achieved both social prominence and political power later in life. Exhibiting those characteristics of self-reliance vital for survival on the American frontier, he became an intimate member of the nation's political and military elite. The idea of a rude frontiersman providing the democratic leaven within an association of the rich and powerful has always excited the American imagination, nurtured on stories of Davy Crockett. In the case of the self-educated Few, that image was largely accurate.
Few's inherent gifts for leadership and organization, as well as his sense of public service, were brought out by his experience in the American Revolutionary War. Important in any theater of military operations, leadership and organizational ability were particularly needed in the campaigns in the south where a dangerous and protracted struggle against a determined British invader intimately touched the lives of many settlers. Few's dedication to the common good and his natural military acumen quickly brought him to the attention of the leaders of the Patriot cause, who eventually invested him with important political responsibilities as well.
The war profoundly affected Few's attitude toward the political future of the new nation, transforming the rugged frontier individualist into a forceful exponent of a permanent union of the states. Men of his stripe came to realize during the years of military conflict that the rights of the individual, so jealously prized on the frontier, could be nurtured and protected only by a strong central government accountable to the people. This belief became the hallmark of his long public service.
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