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John Francis Mercer (
May 17,
1759 –
August 30,
1821) was an
American lawyer, planter, and politician from
Virginia and
Maryland. Born in
1759 in Marlborough,
Stafford County, Virginia, to
John Mercer and Ann Roy Mercer, he graduated from the
College of William and Mary in 1775 and was a delegate for Virginia to the
Continental Congress in
1783 and
1784.
During the
American Revolutionary War, Mercer was commissioned a captain in the
3rd Virginia Regiment in the
Continental Army. He was wounded at the
Battle of Brandywine. In 1778 he became an
aide-de-camp with the rank of major to General
Charles Lee. He resigned from the army when Lee did, but reentered the war as a lieutenant colonel in the
Virginia militia. He served briefly under
Lafayette in Virginia and was present at the
siege of Yorktown.
After the war, Mercer moved to
Anne Arundel County, Maryland, and was a Maryland delegate to the
Philadelphia Convention in
1787, but withdrew before signing the
Constitution. He would represent Maryland in the
United States House of Representatives from the
second and
third districts from
1792 to
1794, and served as
Governor of Maryland from
1801 to
1803. He died in
1821 in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is buried in Cedar Park,
Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
He was the brother of
George Mercer and
James Mercer.
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