DeWitt Clinton
BIRTH
Mar 2, 1769
Little Britain, New York
DEATH
February 11, 1828
Albany, New York
Governor of New York
1817-1823
FAMILY
FATHER:
James Clinton
(1736-1812)
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Clinton, DeWitt
(1769-1828)
DeWitt Clinton was a New York politician who served as senator, mayor of New York City, lieutenant governor, and governor. He became the leading promoter of the Erie Canal, whose completion transformed transportation, commerce, and settlement in the early United States.
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WIFE
Maria Franklin Clinton
(1775-1818)
George W. Clinton
(1807-1885)
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DIED:
Albany, New York
Feb 11, 1828
DeWitt Clinton was born on Mar 2, 1769 in Little Britain, New York. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies DeWitt Clinton with work or public activity as a statesman. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. DeWitt Clinton died on Feb 11, 1828 in Albany, New York. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.