This man's son Henry was the first United States c
This man's son Henry was the first United States commissioner of patents. Though this man did not sign the Constitution, he promoted its ratification in his Letters of a Landholder.  He reluctantly agreed to be appointed commisioner to France in 1799, three years after he took a position which had been declined by William Cushing.  He proposed the use of the phrase "United States" as a member of the five-man committee which drafted the Constitution; that committee was chaired by the man who preceded him in his most prominent position, John Rutledge.  He also joined with Roger Sherman to create the Connecticut Compromise. FTP, name this politician who was the third Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
This man's son Henry was the first United States commissioner of patents.
Oliver Ellsworth