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Birthplace
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Northhampton, Mass. |
Occupation
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Lawyer, author,
editor |
| Congressional Service |
House 1806-1807
(F-Conn.) |
Newspapers
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Hartford
Connecticut Courant, ca. 1790s-1800s (F), contributor |
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Hartford
Connecticut Mirror, ca. 1809-1815 (F) |
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Albany
Daily Advertiser, 1815-17 |
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New
York Daily Advertiser, 1817- 35 |
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Federal
appointments
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none
found |
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Other offices
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Conn.
Council, 1808-1815 |
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Notes
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Yale
graduate |
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Secretary
of the Hartford Convention |
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A
leading "Connecticut Wit" |
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Author
of numerous
political orations, poems, and pamphlets as well as two books
posthumously vindicating the Federalists: History of the
Hartford Convention (1833) and The Character of Thomas
Jefferson, as Exhibited in His Own Writings (1839) |
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Brother
of Yale president and fellow "Wit" Timothy Dwight |
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Cousin
of Aaron Burr |
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