Person:Richard Bassett (22)

Richard Bassett, Esq., US Senator from Delaware

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Name	Richard Bassett, Esq., US Senator from Delaware
Gender	Male
Birth`^?`	2 Apr 1745	Cecil, Maryland, United States
Marriage		to Unknown
Death`^?`	15 Aug 1815	Cecil, Maryland, United States
Reference Number		Q518823 (Wikidata)

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Richard Bassett (Delaware politician), in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
last accessed Dec 2022.

Richard Bassett (April 2, 1745 – September 15, 1815) was an American politician, attorney, slave owner and later abolitionist, veteran of the American Revolution, attorney, signer of the United States Constitution, and one of the Founding Fathers of America.[1] He also served as United States Senator from Delaware, chief justice of the Delaware Court of Common Pleas, governor of Delaware and a United States circuit judge of the United States Circuit Court for the Third Circuit. ...