Jacob Broom was a man of many skills and one with a prosperous life. He was a farmer and a businessman but the thing he was known for the most was his role in the Constitutional Convention.

Jacob Brooms life before the constitutional convention was a very interesting one.
Broom was born in Wilmington, Delaware on October 17th, 1752. He was born into a family where he was the oldest out of three other boys. Brooms father was a blacksmith who then became a prosperous farmer. After getting an education at Wilmington’s Old Academy he followed his father's footsteps and started a farm with his Wife Rachel Pierce, who he had eight children with. Although he was a prosperous farmer, Brooms dream was always to be part of a business including shipping, real estate, and the import trade. …show more content…
Despite his lack of a very large involvement in politics before the Constitutional Convention, Broom was a valent supporter of strong central government. Broom consistently voted for laws that would promise a strong and powerful government that would be responsive to the needs of the states. Like many he favored a nine-year term for members of the Senate, where all states would be equally represented. He wanted the state to pay the representatives in Congress, which would have the power to veto state laws. He also wanted to give state legislatures the power to select presidential electors, and he wanted the President to hold office for life much like a king. Broom faithfully attended the sessions of the Convention in Philadelphia and spoke out several times on issues that he considered needed, but he left most of the speechmaking to more powerful and experienced delegates. To give insight of how Broom was in The Convention William Pierce, a Georgia delegate, described him as "a plain good Man, with some abilities, but nothing to render him conspicuous, silent in public, but cheerful and convertible in