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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkCLINTON, De Witt
(1769—1828)
Senate Years of Service:
1802-1803
Party:
Democratic Republican
CLINTON, 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
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. 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.
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. New York: Minton, Balch & Co., 1933.
Campbell, William W., ed. The Life and Writings of De Witt Clinton
. New York: Baker & Scribner, 1849.
Cornog, Evan. “The Birth of Empire: De Witt Clinton and the American Experience, 1769-1828.” Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, 19956.
___. The Birth of Empire: De Witt Clinton and the American Experience, 1769-1828
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Hanyan, Craig. De Witt Clinton: Years of Molding, 1769-1807.
New York: Garland Publishing, 1988.
Hanyan, Craig, and Mary Hanyan. “De Witt Clinton and the People’s Men: Leadership and Purpose in an Early American Reform Movement, 1822-1826.” Mid-America
73 (April-July 1991): 87-114.
___. De Witt Clinton and the Rise of the People’s Men
. Montreal: McGill- Queen’s University Press, 1996.
Hosack, David. Memoir of De Witt Clinton: With an Appendix Containing Numerous Documents, Illustrative of the Principal Events of His Life
. New York: J. Seymour, 1829.
Lagana, Michael Paul. “DeWitt Clinton: Politician Toward a New Political Order, 1769-1802.” Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, 1972.
___. “The Political Career of De Witt Clinton: A Need For Reinterpretation.” Niagara Frontier
22 (Winter 1975): 74-77.
McBain, Howard Lee. De Witt Clinton and the Origin of the Spoils System in New York
. 1907. Reprint. New York: AMS Press, 1967.
Renwick, James. Life of De Witt Clinton
. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1841.
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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