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James Wadsworth III (July 8, 1730 – September 22, 1816) was an American lawyer from Durham, Connecticut.

After graduating from Yale College in 1748, he became clerk of Durham from 1756 to 1786. Initially a brigadier general of the Connecticut militia during the Revolutionary War, after the death of David Wooster in 1777 he became the major general of militia and the second-highest ranked militia officer in the state. After the war, he became a justice of the New Haven County Court of Common Pleas. He served as a delegate to the Continental Congress from 1783 to 1786, Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1784 to 1785, a member of the Connecticut Executive Council from 1785 to 1790, and as a judge of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors from 1787 to 1788.

References

1. ^ "Chapter Sketches, Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution" (PDF). 1901.
2. Hinman, Royal Ralph, ed. (1846). "James Wadsworth". A catalogue of the names of settlers of the Colony of Connecticut. Hartford: E. Gleason. pp. 303–304.
3. Wadsworth Family Collection Inventory — Connecticut State Library (Both his children having died in infancy, James Wadsworth (1730–1816) left no direct descendants but his brother James Noyes Wadsworth (1732–1786) founded a distinguished family and was the great-grandfather of the painter Wedworth Wadsworth.) Archived 2011-10-11 at the Wayback Machine
4. Day, Thomas (1809). Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Errors, of the State of Connecticut, in the years 1805, 1806, and 1807. Vol. 2. p. xii-xiii.

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• Wadsworth's biography at U.S. Congress

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