The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . cient writer. In 1794, anticipating war withGreat Britain or France, he with others organized acompany of artillery, and was chosen lieutenant andafterward captain, rising subseque
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . cient writer. In 1794, anticipating war withGreat Britain or France, he with others organized acompany of artillery, and was chosen lieutenant andafterward captain, rising subsequently to the rankof major. Atthesametimehe was secretary to the re-gents of the New York University, and one of aboardof commissioners who had charge of the fortificationof the harbor of New York city at the expense of thestate, all of these appointments being lost when hisimcle was succeeded in the governorship, by JohnJay. De Witt Clinton then retired to private life,and formed a law partnership with John Nickerson,devoting also much time to the study of natural his-tory. About this time he married Maria Franklin,of New York city. In 1797 he was elected a mem-ber of the state legislature, and the next year be-came state senator, beginning thus his long careerin the pohtics of the empire state. In 1800 he was amember of the council of appointment, and engagedin a dispute with Gov. Jay over the naming of can-. didates for state oflficers and the removal of office-holders. A state convention, called to settle thequestion at issue, favored the views of Clinton. Hewas now the acknowledged leader of the democraticparty in the state. While in the legislature he hadbeen instrumental in securing the passage of an actproviding for the gradual abolition of slavery. In1802 he was elected U. S. senator, and was theyoungest man who had ever taken a seat in thatbody up to that time. Here he spoke on the navi-gation of the Mississippi river in opposition to theclaims of Spain, which had witl
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