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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyFranklin DAVENPORT
(1755-1832)
Senate Years of Service:
1798-1799Party: FederalistDAVENPORT, Franklin,
(nephew of Benjamin Franklin), a Senator and a Representative from
New Jersey; born in Philadelphia, Pa., in September 1755; received
an academic education; studied law in Burlington, N.J.; admitted to
the bar in 1776 and commenced practice in Gloucester City, N.J.;
clerk of Gloucester County Court in 1776; during the Revolutionary
War enlisted as a private in the New Jersey Militia, later becoming
brigade major, brigade quartermaster, and in 1778 assistant
quartermaster for Gloucester County; appointed colonel in the New
Jersey Militia in 1779 and subsequently major general, which rank
he held until his death; prosecutor of pleas in 1777; moved to
Woodbury, N.J., in 1781 and continued the practice of law;
appointed first surrogate of Gloucester County in 1785; member,
State general assembly 1786-1789; colonel in the New Jersey Line
during the Whiskey Insurrection of 1794; appointed brigadier
general of Gloucester County Militia in 1796; appointed to the
United States Senate as a Federalist to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of John Rutherfurd, and served from December 5,
1798, to March 3, 1799, when a successor was elected and qualified;
elected to the Sixth Congress (March 4, 1799-March 3, 1801); was
not a candidate for renomination in 1800; resumed the practice of
law; appointed master in chancery in 1826; died in Woodbury,
Gloucester County, N.J., July 27, 1832; interment in Presbyterian
Cemetery, North Woodbury, N.J.
Bibliography
Stewart, Frank J. Gloucester County’s Most Famous Citizen:
General Franklin Davenport, 1755-1832. Woodbury, NJ: Gloucester
County Democrat Print, 1921.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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