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Did any of the Founding Fathers graduate from Harvard Law School?

April 26, 2017founding fathers government graduate harvard law school politics

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Did any of the Founding Fathers graduate from Harvard Law School?

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There were no such things as “law schools” back then. However, John Adams, Samuel Adams and John Hancock all went to Harvard. John Jay and Alexander Hamilton went to King’s College (now Columbia). Thomas Jefferson went to William and Mary And James Madison (WHO WROTE THE CONSTITUTION) went to Princeton where he studied, among other things, LAW! So, actually they were qualified to write the constitution. Of the signers of the Declaration of Independence: 7 went to Harvard 3 each went to Prenceton, Wm and Mary, Yale, Penn, Columbia and Cambridge and 1 went to Oxford The writer of the Declaration – Thomas Jefferson – went to Wm & Mary and was a student of George Wythe – america’s first “law professor” (Enjoy state college – assuming you can get in).