New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . ember, 1829, that tendered his resignation of the office andupon the same day the joint meeting selectedPeter D. Vroom governor of New Jersey. LikeMr. Wall Governor Vrooms early life had beenspent under Federalistic influences, but in 1824,with his father. Colonel Peter D. Vroom, Sr., hehad espoused the cause of Jackson, when the can-didacy of John Quincy Adams had renewed thebitterness felt against the Massachusetts leader,the outgrowth of his previous desertion of Federal-ism for the party of Thomas Jefferson. For
New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . ember, 1829, that tendered his resignation of the office andupon the same day the joint meeting selectedPeter D. Vroom governor of New Jersey. LikeMr. Wall Governor Vrooms early life had beenspent under Federalistic influences, but in 1824,with his father. Colonel Peter D. Vroom, Sr., hehad espoused the cause of Jackson, when the can-didacy of John Quincy Adams had renewed thebitterness felt against the Massachusetts leader,the outgrowth of his previous desertion of Federal-ism for the party of Thomas Jefferson. For three GA1;keT DORSET WALL Born MiddJetown, N. J., March 10,1783. Commanded company from Trenton toSandy Hook in War of 1812; clerk NewJersey Supreme Court 1812-17; quartermas-ter-general of New Jersey 1815-37: memberLegislature 1822 and 1827. Elected governor of New Jersey iszy, butdeclined; U. S. district attorney;^ U. S. sen-ator 1835-41; judge Court of Errors and Ap-peals 1849-50; one of the founders of Bur-lington College. Died Burlington, N. Nov. 22,
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