James Mitchell Varnum, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

James Mitchell Varnum

American judge

Date of Birth: 17-Dec-1748

Place of Birth: Dracut, Massachusetts, United States

Date of Death: 09-Jan-1789

Profession: judge, military officer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About James Mitchell Varnum

  • James Mitchell Varnum (December 17, 1748 – January 9, 1789) was an American legislator, lawyer, general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and a pioneer to the Ohio Country.
  • "The career of Gen.
  • Varnum was active, but brief.
  • He graduated at twenty; was admitted to the bar at twenty-two; entered the army at twenty-seven; resigned his commission at thirty-one; was member of Congress the same year; resumed practice at thirty-three, and continued four years, was elected to Congress again at thirty-seven; emigrated to the west at thirty-nine, and died at the early age of forty."James Mitchell Varnum was "a man of boundless zeal, of warm feelings, of great honesty, of singular disinterestedness; and, as to talents, of prodigal imagination, a dextrous reasoner, and a splendid orator.
  • He was a man made on a gigantic scale; his very defects were masculine and powerful, 'and, we shall not soon look upon his like again.'"

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