George Wythe
First American law professor, a noted classics scholar, a Founding Father of the United States and a Virginia judge · United States · On the map · Academics · Lived 1726 to 1806 · aged 80
George Wythe was an American academic, scholar, and judge who was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
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The George Wythe House in Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia![In John Trumbull's Declaration of Independence, Wythe is in profile farthest to the viewer's left. Trumbull's 1818 painting was used for the back of the U.S. $2 bill, but Wythe's image was cut out of that depiction.[37]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Declaration_of_Independence_%281819%29%2C_by_John_Trumbull.jpg/1280px-Declaration_of_Independence_%281819%29%2C_by_John_Trumbull.jpg)
In John Trumbull's Declaration of Independence, Wythe is in profile farthest to the viewer's left. Trumbull's 1818 painting was used for the back of the U.S. $2 bill, but Wythe's image was cut out of that depiction.[37]
George Wythe gravestone at St. John's Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia
Will of George Wythe, 1806, leaving books to Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson's notes on a biography of Wythe, 1820About this person
The first of the seven signatories of the United States Declaration of Independence from Virginia, Wythe served as one of Virginia's representatives to the Continental Congress and the Philadelphia Convention and served on a committee that established the convention's rules and procedures. He left the convention before signing the United States Constitution to tend to his dying wife. He was elected to the Virginia Ratifying Convention and helped ensure that his home state ratified the Constitution. Wythe taught and was a mentor to Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, Henry Clay and other men who became American leaders.
