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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkDUANE, James
(1733—1797)
DUANE, James, a Delegate from New York; born in New York City February 6, 1733; completed preparatory studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar August 3, 1754; clerk of the chancery court in 1762; attorney general of New York in 1767; boundary commissioner in 1768 and 1784; State Indian commissioner in 1774; delegate to the provincial convention in 1775; member of the Revolutionary Committee of One Hundred in 1775; Member of the Continental Congress 1774-1783; member of the Provincial Congress in 1776 and 1777; served in the State senate 1782-1785 and 1788-1790; chosen a member of the Annapolis Commercial Convention in 1786, but did not attend; first mayor of New York City 1784-1789; delegate to the State convention which ratified the Federal Constitution in 1788; United States district judge for the district of New York 1789-1794; believed to have died in either New York City or in Duanesburg, Schenectady County, N.Y., February 1, 1797; interment under Christ Church in Duanesburg.
Bibliography
Alexander, Edward P. Revolutionary Conservative: James Duane of New York
. New York: AMS Press, 1978.
Alexander, Edward P. Revolutionary Conservative: James Duane of New York
. New York: AMS Press, 1978.
Duane, James. The Duane Letters [1761-1789]
. N.p., n.d.
———. State of the Evidence and Argument in Support of the Territorial Rights and Jurisdiction of New York Against the Government of New Hampshire and the Claimants Under It, and Against the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
. New York: n.p., 1871.
Jones, Samuel W. Memoir of the Hon. James Duane, Judge of the District Court of the U. States for New York
. 1849. Reprint, [Schenectady]: Keyser, printer, 1852.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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