Oliver Ellsworth

1745-1807

Connecticut

Connecticut Legislature; Continental Congress, 1778-83; Governor's Council and State judge; Deputy to United States Constitutional Convention, but not a signer; United States Senator, 1789-96; sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States of the United States, March 8, 1796; mission to France, 1799-1800; resigned Chief Justiceship, October, 1800.