Lyle Tayson: Jacob Broom

Artist: Lyle Tayson
1924 -
Nationality: American
Artwork Year: 1978
Image Size: 7.5 by 10.25 inches
Overall Size: 12 by 16 inches
Medium: Water Color on Cold Press Illustration Board

Jacob Broom was a civic leader and successful businessman. He was born in Wilmington, Delaware in 1752, and educated at the old Wilmington Academy. He became a surveyor, and during America's Revolutionary War, one of his maps was used at the Battle of Brandywine Creek. When Broom was twenty-four years old, he was elected Assistant Burgess of the borough of Wilmington. In 1784, Broom was elected to the lower house of the Delaware legislature, where he served for the next five years. At the age of twenty-five, Broom was elected as one of Delaware's five delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. His greatest contribtuion to the Constitutional Convention was his passionate appeal that the delegates must agree on some new plan of government, even if only by a bare majority. His appeal came at a time when the Convention seemed at the point of breaking up and a motion was before it to adjourn with no date set for taking further action. His pleas seems to have been very effective, for the Convention agreed to convene the next day and continue hammering out a Constitution. Finally, on September 17, 1787, Broom signed the United States Constituion and returned to Delaware. Broom took no further part in state or national affairs for the rest of his life, devoting his attention to his business and to civic duties in Wilmington. At the age of fifty-eight, Jacob Broom died in Philadelphia, leaving money in his will to various societies.

This artwork was originally published on the Fleetwood® First Day Cover for The Signers of the Constitution Collection issued on September 17, 1987.

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