Lyle Tayson: George Clymer

Artist: Lyle Tayson
1924 -
Nationality: American
Artwork Year: 1977
Image Size: 7.5 by 10.25 inches
Overall Size: 12 by 16 inches
Medium: Water Color on Cold Press Illustration Board

A Grand Committee of Eleven was formed during the Constitutional Convention to decide whether the new national government should assume the war debts of the states. George Clymer was appointed to this Committee, at which time he began to take a very active role in the Convention. Clymer moved that the state governments should have the power to tax exports, but this motion was defeated. He spoke in defense of a recommendation that no restrictions should be placed on the powers of the new government to regulate shipping, and this recommendation was accepted. Clymer also expressed his feelings that the Constitution was making the Senate too powerful a body. After signing the Constitution, he returned to the Pennsylvania state legislature. He had served there at the same time he had been a member of his state's delegation to the Constitutional Convention of 1787. He had also been a successful merchant and was a former member of the Continental Congress. After leaving the Constitutional Convention, he next served as a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania in the first Congress of the United States under the Constitution from 1789 to 1791. President Washington, in 1791, appointed Clymer collector of federal excise taxes for Pennsylvania. In this position, Clymer received much abuse during the Whisky Rebellion of 1794.

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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