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Courtesy of the U.S. Army Center of Military History
This Unitarian George Washington appointed adjutant general, and then as quartermaster of the army. He was a representative in the Pennsylvania delegation that ratified the Constitution of the United States.
Here is a US State Department profile:
Born: July 17, 1745
Died: January 29, 1829
Married: Rebecca White
Education: Harvard College
Occupation: Lawyer
Government Positions:
- Entered Revolutionary Army as colonel in 1775
- Elected to State Legislature in 1776
- Appointed Adjutant General 1777
- Elected member of the Board of War 1777
- Quartermaster General of the Army 1780-1785
- Organized Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, and represented it in the convention of 1787 that ratified the Federal Constitution and in the State constitutional convention of 1789-1790
- Postmaster General 1791-1795
- Secretary of War in President Washington’s Cabinet in 1795
- Secretary of State ad interim August 20-December 9, 1795
- Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Court of Common Pleas in 1802
- Senator for Massachusetts 1803-1800
- Member of State Executive Council 1812-1813
- Representative from Massachusetts 1813-1817
