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<span>William Penn, a man of zealous religious convictions, was a real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, and the founder of Pennsylvania. He acquired the land from King Charles II as payment of the debt the king owed to Penn's father. Pennsylvania became a haven for the Quakers who had immigrated to the colonies. Before the existence of Pennsylvania, many of the England Puritans treated the Quakers poorly and even banished some to the Carribean.</span>
When the constitutional convention met in July of 1817 to draft Mississippi's first constitution, David Holmes was named president of the convention and was subsequently elected without opposition as the state's first governor.