William Ellery Channing was the foremost Unitarian preacher in the United States in the early nineteenth century and, along with Andrews Norton, one of Unitarianism's leading theologians. Channing was
Channing (1815), Gilbert Stuart
William Ellery Channing by Henry Cheever Pratt, 1857. Oil on canvas. Housed at Brown University.
Statue in Boston Public Garden
William Ellery was a Founding Father of the United States, one of the 56 signers of the United States Declaration of Independence, and a signer of the Articles of Confederation as a representative of
Engraving of Ellery by Henry Bryan Hall
Ellery's tomb at Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery in Newport
William Ellery's grave inscription
Site of Ellery's house in Newport on Thames Street near his burial site