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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkJames Isaac VAN ALEN
(1776-1870)
VAN ALEN, James Isaac,
(half brother of Martin Van Buren), a Representative from New York;
born in Kinderhook, Columbia County, N.Y., in 1776; attended the
common schools; city clerk of Kinderhook 1797-1801; member of the
State constitutional conventions in 1801 and 1803; justice of the
peace 1801-1804; member of the State assembly in 1804; surrogate of
Columbia County 1804-1808 and 1815-1822; elected as a Republican to
the Tenth Congress (March 4, 1807-March 3, 1809); died in Newburgh,
N.Y., on December 23, 1870; interment in Kinderhook Cemetery,
Kinderhook, N.Y.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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