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Thomas Mifflin was a distinguished merchant and politician from Pennsylvania who also served as a delegate and President of the Continental Congress, major general in the Continental Army, delegate to the Constitutional Convention, and first governor of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Williamson, Hugh, NC. Wilson, James, PA. Thomas Mifflin was a great American politician and a merchant from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mifflin was born in the 10th day of January in the year 1744 and lived until the 20th of January 1800. During the period of the American Revolution, he became a respected major general of the Continental Army ...

Thomas Mifflin, the eldest son of wealthy Quaker merchant John Mifflin and his wife Elizabeth Bagnall, was one of those men of the Revolutionary and Federalist periods who seem to have been everywhere and done everything.

Thomas Mifflin of Pennsylvania was the Fifth United States in Congress Assembled President (USCA President), serving under the Articles of Confederation from November 3, 1783 until November 2, 1784. Mifflin's Congressional session first convened at the Maryland State House in Annapolis on December 13, 1783 and concluded its business on June 3 ...

THOMAS MIFFLIN Pennsylvania Birth: 10 January 1744, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Death: 20 January 1800, at Lancaster, Pennsylvania Interment: Trinity Lutheran Church Cemetery, Lancaster,...

He stood in front of Mifflin, his former aide-de-camp and Quartermaster General, and asked to be relieved of his duties as Commander-in-Chief. Thomas Mifflin accepted the resignation of George Washington. The Treaty of Paris. Just three weeks later Mifflin was having trouble calling together a quorum of delegates.

Mifflin was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, President of the Pennsylvania Supreme Executive Council (the equivalent of governor) from 1788 to 1790, and Chairman of the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention of 1789-1790. He was elected governor of Pennsylvania under the new State Constitution of 1790, winning reelection twice.

Biography. Thomas Mifflin, Pennsylvania's first governor under the Constitution of 1790, was born in Philadelphia January 10, 1744, the oldest son of John and Elizabeth (Bagnell) Mifflin, a prosperous merchant family and early Quaker settlers. Mifflin graduated from the College of Philadelphia in 1760, worked for Philadelphia merchant William ...