Nathaniel Gorham

8th President of the United States in Congress Assembled: June 1786 February 1, 1787 Copyright © Stan Klos , President Who? Forgotten Founders 2004 & 2008 Students and Teachers of US History this is a video of Stanley and Christopher Klos presenting America's Four United Republics Curriculum at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. The D... ecember 2015 video was an impromptu capture by a member of the audience of Penn students, professors and guests that numbered about 200. Nathaniel Gorham of Massachusetts was elected President of the United States, in Congress Assembled June 6, 1786 and served until November 13, 1786. He was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts on May 27th, 1738 and died there on June 11th, 1796. He was the son of a small boat operator growing-up in a family of modest means. After receiving a public school education, Gorham worked in various small businesses in his birth place of Charlestown. He was apprenticed in 1754 to Nathaniel Coffin, a merchant in New London, Connecticut where he learned the import and export business. He left Coffin's employ in 1759 and returned to Charlestown establishing his own small business there, which prospered in the post French and Indian War market. In 1763 Gorham wed Rebecca Call, who bore the couple nine children. In 1770, Gorham launched his public career as a notary and the following year won his election to the colonial legislature. He took an active part in public affairs at the beginning of the Revolution and was a strong supporter of the Whigs. [1] Gorham was elected delegate to the Massachusetts' Provincial Congress in 1774 and served throughout 1775. During the war he was a member of the Massachusetts Board of War from 1778 until its dissolution in 1781, which oversaw the State's military strategy, logistics , recruitment and coastal. He help plan the military and naval effort where American forces were engaged in several important expeditions against British bases in Nova Scotia. He paid the price for his efficient service when British ...Read More