William Few - Signers Of The U.S. Constitution Canvas Print

William Few was a self-made man. He was born in Maryland in 1748, and was the son of a poor farmer. When he was sixteen, his family moved to North Carolina. There was no school there, and Few attended the courts to learn on his own, borrowing books from the lawyers he met. In 1761, Few's father went into debt and moved to Georgia. Young William Few stayed behind to straighten out his father's affairs, and later went to Georgia himself. At the age of twenty-nine, Few was elected to the convention in Savannah that drew up the state's first constitution. He then was elected as a member of the state's first legislature, where he was made a member of the governor's sixteen-man advisory council. Few was then elected as a delegate to the Continental Congress, and in 1787, he was elected to Georgia's delegation to the Constitutional Convention, where he signed the Constitution of the United States. At the age of forty, Few was elected by the state legislature as one of Georgia's first two Unit...