George Wythe

"No man has ever left behind him a character more venerated than George Wythe," praised Thomas Jefferson of his tutor. "His virtue was of the purest tint; his integrity inflexible, and his justice exact; of warm patriotism, and, devoted as he was to liberty, and the natural and equal rights of man, he might be called the Cato of his country" (Lincoln 1). George Wythe was a very influential man in the shaping of the United …

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