BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ZContent.net//Zap Calendar 1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20070101T000000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:George Read UID:2008-05-19-19-34-02-63-@americanhistorycalendar.com SEQUENCE:0 STATUS:CONFIRMED TRANSP:OPAQUE RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYMONTH=9;BYMONTHDAY=18 DTSTART;TZID=UTC;VALUE=DATE:20250918 DTEND;TZID=UTC;VALUE=DATE:20250919 DTSTAMP:20260728T035654 CATEGORIES:Signers of the Declaration of Independance,Revolution People LOCATION:North East\, Maryland GEO:39.6001132;-75.9413327 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n\n\n

George Read (1733-1798) was an American lawyer, politician, and Founding Father from Delaware. Bor n on September 18, 1733 in Cecil County, Maryland and raised in New Castle , Delaware, he studied law in Philadelphia before building a successful le gal career. Read was a delegate to the Continental Congress and signed the Declaration of Independence, though he initially opposed separation from Britain, favoring reconciliation. He later helped draft Delaware’s first state constitution and served as president (governor) of Delaware in 1777 . Read also attended the Constitutional Convention of 1787, where he stron gly supported equal representation for small states, influencing the “Gr eat Compromise.” He signed the U.S. Constitution and later served as one of Delaware’s first U.S. Senators before becoming Chief Justice of Dela ware.

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DESCRIPTION:George Read (1733-1798) was an American lawyer\, politician\, a nd Founding Father from Delaware. Born on September 18\, 1733 in Cecil Cou nty\, Maryland and raised in New Castle\, Delaware\, he studied law in Phi ladelphia before building a successful legal career. Read was a delegate t o the Continental Congress and signed the Declaration of Independence\, th ough he initially opposed separation from Britain\, favoring reconciliatio n. He later helped draft Delaware’s first state constitution and served as president (governor) of Delaware in 1777. Read also attended the Consti tutional Convention of 1787\, where he strongly supported equal representa tion for small states\, influencing the “Great Compromise.” He signed the U.S. Constitution and later served as one of Delaware’s first U.S. S enators before becoming Chief Justice of Delaware.\n\n URL:https://americanhistorycalendar.com/component/zcalendar/1,6142-george-r ead?Itemid= END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR