High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Oliver Ellsworth (April 29,
1745 & November 26, 1807), an American lawyer and politician, was a
revolutionary against British rule, a drafter of the United States
Constitution, and third Chief Justice of the United States. On June 20,
1787, while at the Federal Convention, Ellsworth moved to strike the
word National from the May 30, 1787 motion made by Edmund Randolph of
Virginia, that called for the government to be called a National
Government of United States. Ellsworth moved that the government
continue to be called the United States Government.
