|Former Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court| From: March
4, 1793 – September 9, 1806 |Successor||Henry Brockholst
Livingston| |2nd Governor of New Jersey| From: October 29, 1790
– March 30, 1793 |Former U.S. Senator from New Jersey| From:
March 4, 1789 – November 13, 1790 William Paterson (December 24,
1745 – September 9, 1806) was an Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States in addition to being a New
Jersey statesman and a delegate to the 1787 Constitutional
Convention, where he proposed the New Jersey Plan. Patterson was
one of the authors of the Judiciary Act of 1789 - which created
the federal legal structure he would soon be a part of. On the
Supreme Court, his role as a framer gave credence to what he
cited as the original intent of the drafters of the
Constitution. - ↑ William Paterson (English) (HTML). Oyez.
Chicago-Kent School of Law. - ↑ William Paterson - Jersey,
Court, Supreme, Constitution, Congress, and Created (English)
(HTML). law.jrank.