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2 unusual facts about George Wythe


Bruce Chadwick

I Am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing That Shocked a New Nation (Wiley, 2009), about the slaying of a Founding Father, published in the winter of 2008.

John Fortescue Aland, 1st Baron Fortescue of Credan

Jefferson read this book (in its 1719 edition), and its recommendation of Anglo-Saxon for common lawyers, when he was studying under George Wythe.


William Bakewell

He also was cast in episodes of Peter Gunn, Sea Hunt, Wagon Train, The Roaring 20s, The Virginian, Arrest and Trial, and 87th Precinct He played the Virginia statesman George Wythe in the episode "George Mason" in the 1965 NBC documentary series, Profiles in Courage.

William Small

Small introduced him to members of Virginia society who were to have an important role in Jefferson's life, including George Wythe a leading jurist in the colonies and Francis Fauquier, the Governor of Virginia.


see also

Donald N. Sills

He served as the first president of George Wythe College (now known as George Wythe University), and was succeeded by Oliver DeMille.

George Sweeney

The George Sweeney Trial of 1806 in Richmond, Virginia, a trial in which George Sweeney, the grandnephew of George Wythe was acquitted of murdering Wyth

Glenn Kimber

Kimber and Donald N. Sills (founder of George Wythe College) partnered to found a for-profit university called American Founders University.

William Doughty

William H. Doughty, founder or co-founder of Meadeau View Institute, the Institute for Constitutional Education, and George Wythe College