What is James Wilson?
{{Infobox judge | name = James Wilson | image = JusticeJamesWilson.jpg | office = [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] | nominator = [[George Washington]] | term_start = September 26, 1789 | term_end = August 21, 1798 | predecessor = ''Seat established'' | successor = [[Bushrod Washington]] | birth_date = {{birth date|1742|9|14}} | birth_place = Carskerdo Farm, Fife, Scotland, [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]]<br/> | death_date = {{death date and age|1798|8|21|1742|9|14}} | death_place = {{nowrap|[[Edenton, North Carolina]], U.S.}} | party = [[Federalist Party|Federalist]] | spouse = Rachel Bird {{small|(1771–1786)}}<br />Hannah Gray {{small|(1793–1798)}} | education = [[University of St Andrews]]<br />[[University of Glasgow]]<br />[[University of Edinburgh]] | signature = James Wilson signature.svg }} '''James Wilson''' (September 14, 1742 – August 21, 1798) was one of the Founding Fathers of the [[United States]]. He was a signer of the [[United States Declaration of Independence]]. Wilson was elected two times to the [[Continental Congress]], and was a major force in drafting the [[United States Constitution]]. He was a leading legal thinker, and he was one of the first six justices appointed by [[George Washington]] to the [[Supreme Court of the United States]]. Wilson was born in [[Scotland]], but lived most of his life in [[Pennsylvania]]. ==Early years== James Wilson was born in Carskerdo,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/signers/wilson.htm |title=James Wilson |publisher=Ushistory.org |date=1995-07-04 |accessdate=2010-08-12}}</ref> near [[St Andrews|St. Andrews, Scotland]]. His parents were William Wilson and Alison Landall. Wilson attended a number of universities in Scotland without attaining a degree. Imbued with the ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment, he moved to [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]], in British America in 1766, carrying valuable letters of introduction. These helped Wilson to begin tuto