{"id":20895,"date":"2026-04-09T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=20895"},"modified":"2026-03-23T11:34:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T18:34:51","slug":"the-founders-robert-morris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=20895","title":{"rendered":"The Founders: Robert Morris"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Robert Morris<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I think it is the duty of a good citizen to follow when he cannot lead”.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Morris<\/a>, born in Scotland and raised in Philadelphia, he went into trade and by 1775 was the “richest man in America.” He was a friend of George Washington and is often called “the financier of the American Revolution.” He was one of only two people who signed the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution. After the Constitution was ratified he became a Senator from Pennsylvania. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Robert Morris <\/a>was a central figure in the American Revolution and his life is quite well documented. His frequent collaborator in financing the Revolutionary War was Haym Salomon. He and Alexander Hamilton were considered the architects of the financial system of the early United States. By 1800 Morris had lost all his money in land speculation and spent several years in debtors prison. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps I should try to rate the signers by how well known they are. Robert Morris would be high on the B list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robert Morris “I think it is the duty of a good citizen to follow when he cannot lead”. Robert Morris, born in Scotland and raised in Philadelphia, he went into trade and by 1775 was the “richest man in America.” He was a friend of George Washington and is often called “the financier of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1543],"tags":[1541,311,1568],"class_list":["post-20895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-founding-fathers","tag-founding-fathers","tag-politics","tag-robert-morris"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-23-at-10.17.38-AM.png?fit=1064%2C1382&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-5r1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20895"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20900,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20895\/revisions\/20900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}