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About Richard Bassett
Richard Bassett was an American politician, attorney, slave owner and later abolitionist, veteran of the American Revolution, signer of the United States Constitution, and one of the Founding Fathers of America. He also served as United States Senator from Delaware, chief justice of the Delaware Court of Common Pleas, governor of Delaware and a United States circuit judge of the United States Circuit Court for the Third Circuit.
Everything about Richard Bassett →- Occupation
- politician, judge, lawyer, governor
- Position held
- Governor of Delaware, member of the Delaware State Senate, United States senator, United States senator
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- April 2, 1745
- Died
- September 15, 1815, August 15, 1815