Thomas Nelson, Jr.

(1738-1789)

American Founding Father and politician

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Thomas Nelson Jr. (December 26, 1738 – January 4, 1789) was an American Founding Father, soldier and statesman from Yorktown, Virginia. In addition to serving in the Virginia General Assembly for many terms, he twice represented Virginia in the Continental Congress, where he signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Fellow Virginia legislators elected him to serve as the commonwealth's governor in 1781, the same year that he fought as a brigadier general in the siege of Yorktown, the last battle of the Revolutionary War.

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Born	26 December 1738 Yorktown, Colony of Virginia, British America
Died	4 January 1789 (aged 50) Hanover County, Virginia, United States
Zodiac	Capricorn
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