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WILLING, Thomas, a Delegate from Pennsylvania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., December
19, 1731; completed preparatory studies in Bath, England; studied law in London
at the Inner Temple; returned to Philadelphia and engaged in mercantile
pursuits until 1793; member of the common council in 1755; alderman in 1759;
associate justice of the city court October 2, 1759; justice of the court of
common pleas February 28, 1761; mayor of Philadelphia in 1763; associate
justice of the supreme court of Pennsylvania 1767-1777; member of the committee
of correspondence in 1774 and of the committee of safety in 1775; served in the
colonial house of representatives; Member of the Continental Congress in 1775
and 1776; president of the Bank of North America; first president of the Bank
of the United States 1792-1807; resumed mercantile pursuits; died in
Philadelphia, Pa., January 19, 1821; interment in Christ Churchyard.
BibliographyWright, Robert E. Thomas Willing (1731-1821): Philadelphia
Financier and Forgotten Founding Father.
Pennsylvania History 63 (Autumn 1996): 525-60; Konkle, Burton
Alva.
Thomas Willing and the First American Financial System.
Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford
University Press, 1937.
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