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 . h a dignifiedmanner. The last appearance of Gov. Yates in pub-lic was in 1833, when he presided over a citizensmeeting. He died March 19, 1837. PITCHER, Nathaniel, governor of NewY
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 . h a dignifiedmanner. The last appearance of Gov. Yates in pub-lic was in 1833, when he presided over a citizensmeeting. He died March 19, 1837. PITCHER, Nathaniel, governor of NewYork (1828-39), was born in Litchfield, Conn., in1777, but early in life removed to Sandy Hill, N. little is known of his life, either public or pri-vate. He was a member of the state legislature in1806, and again in 1815 to 1817. He was also amember of the state constitutional convention,which was held in 1821. He was a democrat in pol-itics, and was elected to congress, serving from 1819to 1833. In the state election of 1826 he was whatwas known as a bucktail, and was nominated bythat party for lieutenant-governor. He was a Jack-son man and opposed to De Witt Clinton, the oppo-sition candidate for governor. Clinton was electedgovernor, and Pitcher lieutenant-governor, and whenGov. DeWitt Clinton died, 1838, Pitch-er became governor, serving in that position from 46 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA. ^r February, 1828, to January, 1829. From 1831 to1833, he was a member of congress. He died atSandy Hill May 25, 1886. VAN BTJBEN, Martin, governor of NewYork (1829-30). (See Index.) THBOOP, Enos Thompsoii, governor of NewYork(1831-33), was born in Johnstown, MontgomeryCo., N. Y., Aug. 31,1784. His family originally livedin Lebanon, Conn., but removed to Nova Scotia whenGeorge Bliss Throop, the father of the governor, was amere lad. The revolution causedso much ill-feeling in the prov-inces against the whigs that theywere driven out of the country bythe tories. George Thr
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