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Niles, John Milton 1787-1856
Editor; born in Windsor, Conn., Aug. 20, 1787; was admitted to the bar in 1817; United States Senator in 1835-39 and 1843-49; and Postmaster-General in 1840-41.
He edited The independent Whig; Gazetteer of Connecticut and Rhode Island (with Dr. J. C. Pease) ; Lives of Perry, Lawrence, Pike, and Harrison; History of the Revolution in Mexico and South America, with a view of Texas: the Civil officer; and Archibald Robbin's Journal of the loss of the brig commerce upon the West coast of Africa. He died in Hartford, Conn., May 31, 1856.