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==Career==
 
==Career==
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He was twice elected to the Continental Congress and served in that body from 1784-1787. In 1785 he served as a commissioner in the dispute between South Carolina and Georgia over their boundary line. In 1787 he was deputized by Georgia to attend the Convention to revise the Federal Constitution, and, although he attended and participated in the deliberations of that august body, he declined to sign the Constitution.
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He was twice elected to the Continental Congress and served in that body from 1784-1787. In 1785 he served as a commissioner in the dispute between South Carolina and Georgia over their boundary line. In 1787 he was deputized by Georgia to attend the Convention to revise the Federal Constitution, and, although he attended and participated in the deliberations of that august body, he declined to sign the Constitution.  Other members of the Georgia delegation to the Convention were [[William Few]], [[Abraham Baldwin]], and [[William Pierce]].
    
With his brother John he was one of the original trustees for the establishment of a college to which the State granted forty thousand acres of land in 1784, chartered in 1785 as Franklin College, now the University of Georgia, He resigned this position in 1787.
 
With his brother John he was one of the original trustees for the establishment of a college to which the State granted forty thousand acres of land in 1784, chartered in 1785 as Franklin College, now the University of Georgia, He resigned this position in 1787.
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