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William Bingham - Wikipedia William Bingham (March 8, 1752 – February 7, 1804) was an American statesman from Philadelphia He was a delegate for Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress from 1786 to 1788 and served in the United States Senate from 1795 to 1801 [1]
William Bingham 1752 - 1804 - University Archives and Records . . . By reputation Bingham was the wealthiest man in America, a view reinforced in 1800 when he was assessed the highest tax of anyone in Philadelphia He was the founder of Binghamton, New York, owner of large tracts of oil land in Pennsylvania, and the first president of the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Corporation
William Bingham: Forgotten Supplier of the American Revolution William Bingham was born April 8, 1752 in Philadelphia He was enrolled in the College of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania) at age 6(!), [3] started there in 1765, and graduated cum laude in 1768
William Bingham (1752-1804) - American Aristocracy - HouseHistree In 1771, he was appointed Consul to Martinique and during the Revolution he officiated as the agent of the Continental Congress in the West Indies Notably through privateering, he was reputed to be a millionaire by the time he returned to Philadelphia at the age of thirty
William Bingham (1752-1804) - Historical Society of Pennsylvania William Bingham was born in 1752, the fourth of five children born to William and Mary (Stamper) Bingham of Philadelphia William the elder was a merchant and a veteran of the French and Indian War The younger William Bingham attended the College of Philadelphia, from which he graduated in 1768
William Bingham - PA House of Representatives Bingham was elected the 37th Speaker of the House on December 8, 1790 He was the first Speaker of the House after the 1790 Constitutional Convention created a bicameral legislature, where both the House and Senate comprised the General Assembly
William Bingham - Founder of the Day During the formative years of the United States, William Bingham was one of the wealthiest men in America As the Continental Congress voted for independence, they sent Bingham to Martinico in the Caribbean