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DAR: George Wythe

Apr 07, 202211 min
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Episode description

Legal scholar and teacher George Wythe influenced such figures as Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall and James Monroe with his brilliant mind and Enlightenment views on government and the law. He was delegate to Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of Independence. In 1806 he died at age 80, potentially poisoned by his own grandnephew.

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