Cyrus Griffin
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First Lady: Lady Christina Stuart
Party: Vice President : Cabinet: Born : 16 Jul 1748, Farnham, Richmond County, Virginia Died: Yorktown, Virginia, 14 December 1810 Buried : Bruton Churchyard, Williamsburg, Va. Parents: Thomas Griffin Married : Lady Christina Stuart Children : In Office : January 22, 1788 to March 4, 1789 Education: trained in London's Inner Temple to be a lawyer Occupation: lawyer Other Political Offices : Virginia commonwealth delegate, 1777-1778 Member, Second Continental Congress, 1778-1780 Justice, Court of Appeals in Cases of Capture, 1780-1787 Virginia commonwelath delegate, 1786-1787 Delegate, Continental Congress, 1787-1788 U.S. Commissioner to Creek Nation, 1789 Note: He entered the politics as a member of the Virginia General Assembly in 1777-1778. It was during his term in the office of the Presidency the last before the new national compact went into effect that the ratification was finalized. He was educated in England, and while there married a lady belonging to a noble family. On 23 Oct 1787, the Virginia General Assembly nominated Cyrus Griffin, James Madison and John Brown members of the Continental Congress for the period of 1787-1788. Finally, Griffin returned to Virginia and for more than 20 years held an office of the judge of the US District Court of Virginia (10 Feb 1790 - 14 Dec 1810). As President he signed the treaty (with Great Britain) that formally ended the war. |
