 Clinton Memorial at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York. DeWitt Clinton (March 2, 1769–February 11, 1828) was an early American politician who was largely responsible for the creation of the Erie Canal. Being born to a prominent political family led to service in the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate. DeWitt Clinton Life engraving by W. R. Jones, 1814 This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years. ...
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The Erie Canal (currently part of the New York State Canal System) is a canal in New York State, United States, that runs from the Hudson River to Lake Erie, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. ...
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Early life
Born in Little Britain, New York, the son of James Clinton, he was educated at what is now Columbia University. He became the secretary to his uncle, George Clinton, who was the governor of New York. Soon after he became a member of the Democratic-Republican Party. DeWitt Clinton was a member of the New York state legislature from 1797 until 1802. He then stepped up to membership in the United States Senate. Unhappy with living conditions in newly built Washington, DC he resigned his Senate seat in 1803, to become the Mayor of New York City. He served as Mayor in 1803-1807, 1808-1810 and 1811-1815. While serving as Mayor, Clinton also held office as State Senator (1806-1811) and Lieutenant Governor (1811-1813). [1] Little Britain, New York is an area in Orange County, first settled in 1729 by Peter Mulliner, a devout Anglican, who named his farm Little Britain. ...
James Clinton (August 9, 1733 – September 22, 1812) was a American Revolutionary War soldier who obtained the rank of major general. ...
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Political career In 1812 Clinton ran for President of the United States as candidate of the Federalists and anti-war Democratic-Republicans- who were of the anti-war Fusion Party, but was defeated by James Madison. Clinton was able to accomplish many things as a leader in civic and state affairs, such as improving the New York public school system, encouraging steam navigation, and modifying the laws governing criminals and debtors. The presidential seal was first used in 1880 by President Rutherford Bitch ass face Hayes and last modified in 1959 by adding the 50th star for Hawaii The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. ...
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In 1817 Clinton became the governor of New York until 1823. While governor he was largely responsible for the creation of the Erie Canal. He imagined a Canal from Buffalo, New York on the Eastern Shore of Lake Erie to Albany, New York on the upper Hudson River, a distance of almost 400 miles. So, in 1817 he persuaded the state lawmakers to provide 7 million dollars for the construction of a Canal 363 miles long, 40 feet wide, and four feet deep. This is a list of the Governors of New York. ...
The Erie Canal (currently part of the New York State Canal System) is a canal in New York State, United States, that runs from the Hudson River to Lake Erie, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. ...
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Lake Erie (pronounced ) is the eleventh largest lake on Earth[2] and, of the five Great Lakes of North America, it is the fourth largest by surface area, the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume. ...
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Erie Canal In 1825, when the Erie Canal was finished, Governor Clinton opened it, sailing in the packet boat Seneca Chief along the Canal into Buffalo. After sailing from the mouth of Lake Erie to New York City he emptied two casks of water from Lake Erie into New York Harbor, celebrating the first connection of waters from East to West in the ceremonial waters New York Harbor, a geographic term, refers collectively to the rivers, bays, and tidal estuaries near the mouth of the Hudson River in the vicinity of New York City. ...
Although railroads did compete with the canal, the advent of railroads did not cause the canal to become defunct. As late as 1852, the canal carried thirteen times more freight tonnage than all the railroads in New York state combined; it continued to compete well with the railroads through 1882, when tolls were abolished.
The canal made an immense contribution to the wealth and importance of both New York City and New York State, making boomtowns out of Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Rome, Utica and Schenectady. Nevertheless, its impact went much further, as it increased trade throughout the nation by opening eastern markets to Midwest farm products and encouraged western immigration. Clinton died at the age of 59 and was interred in the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. The Chapel at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn NY Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 as a rural cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, it was granted National Historic Landmark status in 2006 by the U.S. Department of the Interior. ...
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References - Bobbe, Dorothie. DeWitt Clinton (1933)
- Cornog, Evan. The Birth of Empire: Dewitt Clinton and the American Experience, 1769-1828 (1998) Oxford University Press, (2000) online
- Hanyan, Craig and Mary L. De Witt Clinton and the Rise of the People's Men McGill-Queens University Press, (1996) online
- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
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