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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyJonathan ELMER
(1745-1817)
Senate Years of Service:
1789-1791Party: Pro-AdministrationELMER, Jonathan, (brother
of Ebenezer Elmer and uncle of Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus Elmer),
a Delegate and a Senator from New Jersey; born in Cedarville,
Cumberland County, N.J., November 29, 1745; completed preparatory
studies; graduated from the first medical class of the University
of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1769 and practiced in Bridgeton,
N.J.; high sheriff of Cumberland County 1772; chosen captain of a
light infantry company 1775; Member of the Continental Congress
1777-1778, 1781-1783, and 1787-1788; member, State council 1780,
1784; trustee of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton
University) 1782-1795; surrogate of Cumberland County 1784-1802;
president of the State medical society 1787; elected to the United
States Senate and served from March 4, 1789, to March 3, 1791;
appointed presiding judge of the county court of common pleas in
1802 and served until his resignation in 1804; appointed to the
same office in the winter of 1813, but, in February 1814, declined
to serve further because of impaired health; died in Bridgeton,
N.J., September 3, 1817; interment in the Old Presbyterian
Cemetery.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Henry H. Sherk, “Two
Doctors Elmer of Cumberland County: New Jersey’s First United
States Senator and a Revolutionary War Hero.” New Jersey
Medicine 99 (May 2002): 35-39.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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