After failing to gain aid as minister plenipotentiary in France for three years, he was sent to join Benjamin Franklin in Paris.  
After failing to gain aid as minister plenipotentiary in France for three years, he was sent to join Benjamin Franklin in Paris.  As a delegate to the First Continental Congress he drafted The Address to the People of Great Britain, and he refused to sign the Declaration of Independence as president of the Second Continental Congress.  In those roles he represented New York, and he was that state's governor from 1795 till 1801.  FTP, name this American politician, who had already negotiated a namesake treaty with the British in 1794 and served as the nation's first Chief Justice.
After failing to gain aid as minister plenipotentiary in France for three years, he was sent to join Benjamin Franklin in Paris.  
John Jay