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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkDe Witt CLINTON
(1769-1828)
Senate Years of Service:
1802-1803Party: Democratic
RepublicanCLINTON, De Witt, (half
brother of James Graham Clinton, nephew of George
Clinton[1739-1812] and brother of George Clinton [1771-1809]), a
Senator from New York; born in Napanock, Ulster County, N.Y., March
2, 1769; graduated from Columbia College in 1786; studied law;
admitted to the bar in 1790 and commenced practice in New York
City; private secretary to the Governor 1790-1795; member, State
assembly 1798; member, State senate 1798-1802, 1806-1811; delegate
to the State constitutional convention in 1801; member of the
council of appointments in 1801, 1802, 1806, and 1807; elected as a
Democratic Republican to the United States Senate to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of John Armstrong and served from
February 9, 1802, to November 4, 1803, when he resigned; mayor of
the city of New York 1803-1807, 1810, 1811, 1813, and 1814; while
mayor he organized the Historical Society of New York in 1804 and
was its president; also organized the Academy of Fine Arts in 1808;
lieutenant governor of New York 1811-1813; unsuccessful candidate
of the Peace Party for President of the United States in 1812;
regent of the University of New York 1808-1825; in 1809 was a
member of the commission to explore a route for a canal between
Lake Erie and the Hudson River, broke ground for that canal while
Governor, and served several years as canal commissioner; Governor
of the State 1817-1821, 1825-1828; died in Albany, N.Y., on
February 11, 1828; interment in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn,
N.Y.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Cornog, Evan. The Birth
of Empire: De Witt Clinton and the American Experience,
1769-1828. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998; Siry,
Steven E. De Witt Clinton and the American Political Economy:
Sectionalism, Politics, and Republican Ideology, 1787-1828. New
York: Peter Lang, 1990.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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