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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Clinton, George 1739- (search)
n of the British plan for separating New England from the rest of the Union by the occupation of a line of military posts, through the Hudson and George Clinton. Champlain valleys, from New York to the St. Lawrence. In 1788 Governor Clinton presided over the convention held at Poughkeepsie to consider the new national Constitution. To that instrument he was opposed, because it would be destructive of State supremacy. In 1801 he was again elected governor of New York, Clinton's monument. and in 1804 was chosen Vice-President of the United States. In 1808 he was a prominent candidate for the Presidency, but was beaten by Madison, and was reelected Vice-President. By his castingvote in the Senate of the United States, the renewal of the charter of the Bank of the United States was refused. While in the performance of his official duties at Washington, he died, April 20, 1812. His remains rest beneath a handsome white marble monument in the Congressional Cemetery in Washington.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
e any information, which may be communicated without prejudice to the public interest, bearing on the case of John Henry......March 10, 1812 Embargo on all vessels in the United States for ninety days......April 4, 1812 Louisiana admitted as the eighteenth State, to date from April 30; approved......April 8, 1812 That part of west Florida west of Pearl River is annexed to Louisiana......April 14, 1812 George Clinton, Vice-President, dies at Washington, aged seventy-three......April 20, 1812 President Madison renominated......May 18, 1812 [Madison is renominated by the Democratic-Republican party under promise of a declaration of war with England.] President sends a war message to Congress......June 1, 1812 Report of the minority against the war presented to the House......June 3, 1812 Motion to make the debate public lost......June 3, 1812 Territory of Missouri established......June 4, 1812 Cartel ship from Great Britain, with the survivors (two) of the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
surveys a route for a canal from Lake Erie to the Hudson River, and reports it practicable......1808-9 Population of the State, 959,049......1810 A commission appointed to inquire into the practicability of a canal from Lake Erie to the Hudson explores the whole route......1810 It reports in favor of the canal; estimated cost, $5,000,000......1811 West Point reorganized and made efficient......1812 George Clinton, first governor of New York, dies at Washington, D. C.......April 20, 1812 Hamilton College, at Clinton, Oneida county, established......1812 Detached militia of New York arranged by the War Department in two divisions and eight brigades......April 21, 1812 War declared against Great Britain by the United States......June 20, 1812 Stephen Van Rensselaer (the patroon), of Albany, commissioned major-general and assigned to the 1st Division, and Benjamin Mooers, of Plattsburg, to the 2d......1812 British attack Sackett's Harbor and are repulsed.....