Gouverneur Morris

Gouverneur Morris (January 31,1752–November 8,1816), an American statesman, represented Pennsylvania in the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and was author of large sections of the Constitution of the United States. The noble phrases of that document's preamble--"We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union"--sprang from his gifted mind.

References

• Brookhiser, Richard, Gentleman Revolutionary : Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution, Free Press, 2002.
• Crawford, Alan Pell, Unwise Passions: A True Story of a Remarkable Woman -- and the First Great Scandal of Eighteenth-Century America, Simon & Schuster, New York, 2000. (a biography of Morris's wife).