George Wythe (1729-1780) was a lawyer and politician from Virginia, who taught law at the College of William and Mary. Wythe was a mentor to both William Short and Thomas Jefferson and perhaps introduced the two men.
Citation(s):
George G. Shackelford, Jefferson's Adoptive Son: The Life of William Short, 1759-1848 (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1993), 4, 6.
