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 . andled his party in the important debate on the consti-tutional convention bill, which passed both Young was again returned to the assembly in1845. In the next session h
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 . andled his party in the important debate on the consti-tutional convention bill, which passed both Young was again returned to the assembly in1845. In the next session he voted for the law abol-ishing distress for rent, as he strongly disapprovedof the tenures by which the manorial lands wereheld by the tenants. In 1846 Mr. Young was nomi-nated and elected governor of the state on the whigticket. He condemned the Mexican War in his firstmessage. His administration was in the main success-ful. He pursued an independent course in the mat-ter of appointments, of which he made very few. Hepardoned the leading anti-renters, who had be en triedand convicted during the previous administration,on the ground that their offences were his retirement from the office of governor, hesupported Gen. Taylor in the election of 1848 andwas appointed by him assistant treasurer in the cityof New York in place of Ex-Gov. Bouck. Hewas married in 1833 to Ellen Harris, a daughter of.
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