Dewitt clinton biography
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About
DE WITT CLINTON SENTER was born in McMinn County, Tennessee, and lived for much of his youth on a farm in Grainger County. After attending the Academy at Strawberry Plains, he read law on his own and was admitted to the Bar. He was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1857, serving until 1862. A staunch Unionist, he was arrested and held prisoner bygd the Confederate government for six months. When the Civil War ended he became president of the Cincinnati, Cumberland Gap and Charleston Railroad and was elected to two terms in the Tennessee State Senate. As Speaker during his second term, he became governor upon the resignation of William G. Brownlow and was soon after elected to a full term in his own right on a platform that sought to lift restrictions that had been placed on ex-Confederates by the Brownlow ledning. Ultimately, Senter removed the majority of Brownlow’s election commissioners and by his own appointments helped pave the way to restor
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Clinton, DeWitt
Born: 1769-03-02 Little Britain, New York
Died: 1828-02-11 Albany, New York
DeWitt Clinton studied two years at Kingston Academy before the American Revolution, and then attended Columbia College (Columbia University) after. He graduated in 1786 and studied law in Manhattan, earning admittance to the New York bar in 1790. By that point, he had joined the anti-federalist efforts against the constitution by penning a series of articles under the pseudonym "A Countryman." In 1786, he married Maria Franklin, from a very wealthy family, with whom he had ten children. Maria died in 1818 and Clinton married Catharine Jones.
Clinton won election to the New York State Assembly in 1796 and to the Senate the following year. As a Jeffersonian Republican, he found himself in direkt conflict with New York's Federalist governor, John Jay, resulting in a prolonged battle over state appointments. Clinton won the kamp in 1801 and replaced numerous Federalist officeholder
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1769-1828
De Witt Clinton was born on March 2, 1769, in Napanock, Ulster County, NY. He was educated at the Kingston Academy and King’s College (now Columbia University). Clinton studied in the law office of noted attorney Samuel Jones, Sr.,and became a life-long friend with a fellow student and later Chancellor of New York, Samuel Jones, Jr. Admitted to the bar in 1790, he commenced practice in New York City.
In 1787 and 1788, De Witt Clinton authored newspaper articles opposing the ratification of the Federal Constitution and, in 1789, Clinton was appointed private secretary to the New York Governor, his uncle, George Clinton.
De Witt Clinton was elected to the New York Assembly in 1797, and to the New York Senate in 1798. He became a member of the Council on Appointment in 1801, and was chosen to fill a vacant seat in the U.S. Senate in 1802. There, he advocated for the 12th Amendment to the Constitution. In 1803, Clinton became Mayor of New York City, serving until 18