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Not Even Past, host Brendan Wolfe tells the story of how the Founding Father George Wythe
met his gruesome end. Thirty years earlier he’d signed the Declaration of Independence. On this morning, he ate a spartan breakfast of milk and strawberries, never even tasting the arsenic. [soundcloud id=’310136079′ height=’false’ color=’#ff7700′] For more, read
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George Wythe was a member of the House of Burgesses (1754–1755, 1758, 1761–1766) and the Conventions of 1776, 1787, 1788, a member of the Second Continental Congress during the American Revolution (1775–1783), Speaker of the House of Delegates (1777–1778), and judge of the High Court of Chancery (1778–1806). His signature is first among Virginians on the Declaration of Independence. Born in Elizabeth City County, Wythe was educated by his mother and read the law under the guidance of an uncle, eventually building a lucrative practice in Williamsburg, where he mentored a young Thomas Jefferson. He supported independence during the Revolution and served on a General Assembly committee with Jefferson and others charged with revising Virginia’s laws. In 1778, the assembly elected Wythe to serve on the newly created High Court of Chancery, where he stayed the rest of his life, even after receiving offers of seats on higher courts. He twice used his position to rule th
house. to say, debate begins on the confirmation of sonia sotomayor are. final vote on the nomination could happen later in the week. live coverage of the senate begins tomorrow at 2:00 eastern on c-span2. . this week, our guest is bruce chadwick, author of a new book about founding father george wythe. it is called i am murdered: george wythe, thomas jefferson and the killing that shocked a new nation. bruce chadwick, author of the i am murdered, where did you get the title and why have we not heard that much about george wythe? the idea of this book fell out of the sky, tumble for the air, and hit me in the head. i was in a library researching another book. i lost my balance and fell against a shelf and as i did, from a higher shelf, there was a hardbound copies but it hit me in the head and landed on the floor and cover opened up and the page said the murder of george wythe. knew who was but i did not know he had been murdered. one of the chapter titles was a q