Question: Which North Carolina delegate to the Constitutional Convention was expelled from the U.S. Senate in 1797 for conspiring with Britain to seize Spanish territories?
Answer: William Blount, a North Carolina native and signer of the Constitution, was expelled from the U.S. Senate in 1797 for conspiring with Britain to seize Spanish Florida and Louisiana using Indians and frontiersmen. He was impeached by the House, but the charges were later dropped. He returned to Tennessee, where he was elected to the Senate in 1798 and rose to the speakership. He died two years later in 1800.
