DeWitt Clinton

(1769-1828)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Clinton, DeWitt, 1769-1828 LBT ID: DeClinto1828 VIAF ID: 5048651 LOC ID: n82055230	B/BAP: 1769-03-02 DIED: 1828-02-11
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American politician and man of letters; he resigned a senate seat to become mayor of New York (1803-15) and governor (1817-22). He was a promoter of the Eerie Canal.
REFERENCES TO DeWitt Clinton: George Bancroft to Samuel Rogers, 15 May 1850 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 1 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter VII. 1847-50.