Eric Hosmer launched a go-ahead two-run home run in helping to lead the United States to a 4-2 comeback victory over Venezuela in Wednesday's World Baseball Classic showdown. The United States was unable to put a run on the board until the seventh inning, when they drew to within 2-1 on a sacrifice fly.
He presided over the Delaware constitutional convention, in which he chaired the drafting committee, and began a term as speaker of the legislative council, which in effect made him vice president of the state.When the British took Wilmington the next fall, they captured the president, a resident of the city.e presided over the Delaware constitutional convention, in which he chaired the drafting committee, and began a term as speaker of the legislative council, which in effect made him vice president of the state. When the British took Wilmington the next fall, they captured the president, a resident of the city.
This first page of James Madison's notes from the Constitutional Convention included George Washington's election as president. James Madison's Notes on the Debates in the Federal Convention, May 25, 1787. James Madison was thirty-six years old when the convention that wrote the United States Constitution met from May 25 to September 17, 1787, at the statehouse in Philadelphia (later renamed Independence Hall).