James
J. Wilson (1780*-1824)
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Birthplace:
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Essex County, N.J. |
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Occupation:
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Printer |
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Senate 1815-21 (R-New Jersey) |
Newspapers
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Apprentice
with the Elizabeth-Town [Elizabeth] New-Jersey Journal (R) |
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Foreman,
Wilmington Mirror of the Times (R), 1799-1800 |
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Trenton
True American (R), 1801-1824 |
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Federal
appointments
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Postmaster
of Trenton, 1821-24 |
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Other offices
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Clerk,
N.J. General Assembly, ca. 1803-1804 |
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Surrogate
of Hunterdon County, ca. 1808 |
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Adjutant
General, N.J. state militia, 1810-12 |
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Member,
N.J. General Assembly, 1809-1811 |
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President,
State Bank of Trenton, 1811 |
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Quartermaster
General, N.J. state militia, ca. 1822 |
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Notes
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Compiler
& publisher, A National Song-Book, Being a Collection of
Patriotic, Martial, and Naval Songs and Odes (1813) |
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*
BDUSC gives birth date of 1775, but this conflicts with
other sources. |
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New
Jersey was perhaps the most editor-friendly state in the early
years: Along with James Fitz Randolph,
Wilson seems to have been the most heavily rewarded of the
pre-Jacksonian era editors. |
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Sources and Bibliography
(beyond BDUSC) |
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William
Darlington Papers, Library of Congress & New-York Historical
Society |
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Carl
E. Prince, "James J. Wilson: Party Leader, 1801-1824," Proceedings
of the New Jersey Historical Society 83 (Jan. 1965): 24-39 |
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Carl
E. Prince, New Jersey's Jeffersonian Republicans: The Genesis
of an Early Party Machine, 1789-1817 (1967) |
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