James Mitchell Varnum Military person

James Mitchell Varnum (December 17, 1748 – January 9, 1789) was an American legislator, lawyer, general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and a pioneer to the Ohio Country. "The career of Gen. Varnum was active, but brief. He graduated at twenty; was admitted to the bar at twenty-two; entered the army at twenty-seven; resigned his commission at thirty-one; was member of Congress the same year; resumed practice at thirty-three, and continued four years, was elected to Congress again at thirty-seven; emigrated to the west at thirty-nine, and died at the early age of forty."James Mitchell Varnum was "a man of boundless zeal, of warm feelings, of great honesty, of singular disinterestedness; and, as to talents, of prodigal imagination, a dextrous reasoner, and a splendid orator. He was a man made on a gigantic scale; his very defects were masculine and powerful, 'and, we shall not soon look upon his like again.'"

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Birth date	December 17, 1748
Birth place	Dracut Massachusetts
Date of death	January 09, 1789
Place of death	Marietta Ohio

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military operations	American Revolutionary War Battle of White Plains Siege of Boston Battle of Long Island Battle of Rhode Island Battle of Red Bank Valley Forge
military branch	Continental Army
service start	1774
service end	1779