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See also:CLINTON, See also:GEORGE (1739-1812) , See also:American soldier and See also:political See also:leader, was See also:born at Little See also:Britain, See also:Ulster (now See also:Orange) See also:county, New See also:York, on the 26th of See also:July 1739. His See also:father, See also:Charles Clinton (1690-1773), who was born of See also:English parents in Co. See also:Longford, See also:Ireland, emigrated to See also:America in 1729, and commanded a See also:regiment of provincial troops in the See also:French and See also:Indian See also:War. The son went to See also:sea at the See also:age of sixteen, but, finding the sailor's See also:life distasteful,joined his father's regiment and accompanied him as See also:lieutenant in the expedition against Fort Frontenac in 1758. After the war he practised See also:law in his native See also:town and held a number of See also:minor See also:civil offices in Ulster county. From 1768 to 1795 he sat in the New York provincial See also:assembly, and in the controversies with See also:Great Britain zealously championed the colonial cause. In 1774 he was a member of the New York See also:committee of See also:correspondence, and in 1775 was chosen a member of the second See also:Continental See also:Congress. Ia See also:December of this See also:year he was appointed a brigadier-See also:general of See also:militia by the New York provincial congress, and in the following summer, being ordered by See also:Washington to assist in the See also:defence of New York, he See also:left See also:Philadelphia shortly after voting for the See also:Declaration of See also:Independence, but too soon to attach his See also:signature to that document. He had also been chosen, a See also:deputy to the provincial congress (later the See also:state See also:convention) for 1776-1777, but his various other duties prevented his attendance.
General Clinton took See also:part in the See also:battle of See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
White Plains (See also:October 28th, 1776), and later was charged with the defence of the High-lands of the See also:Hudson, where, with De Witt Clinton, in October 1771, he offered a See also:firm but unsuccessful resistance to the advance of See also:Sir See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry Clinton. In See also:March of this year he had been appointed by Congress a brigadier-general in the Continental See also:army, and he thus held two commissions, as the state convention refused to accept his resignation as brigadier-general of militia. So great was Clinton's popularity at this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time that at the first See also:election under the. new state constitution he was chosen both See also:governor and lieutenant-governor; he declined the latter See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, and on the 30th of July 1777 entered upon his duties as governor, which were at first largely of a military nature. In 1780 he took the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field and checked the advance of Sir See also:Jahn See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson and the
See also:Indians in the See also:Mohawk Valley. In his See also:administration Clinton was energetic and patriotic, and though not possessing the intellectual attainments of some of his New York contemporaries, he was more popular than any of them, as is attested by his serivice as governor for eighteen successive years (1777-1795), and for another triennial See also:term from 18or to 1804. In the elections of 178o, 1783 and 1786 he had no opponent. In 1800-18o1 he was a member of the assembly. In the struggle in New York over the See also:adoption of the Federal Constitution he was one of the leaders of the opposition, but in the state convention of 1788, over which he presided, ,his party was defeated, and the constitution was ratified. In See also:national politics he was a follower of See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Jefferson, and in state politics he led the See also:faction known as " Clintonians," which was for a See also:long time dominant. In 1789, 1792 and 1796 Clinton received a number of votes in the electoral See also:college, but not a sufficient number to secure him the See also:vice-See also:presidency, which was then awarded to the recipient of the second highest number of votes. In 1804, however, after the method of voting had been changed, he was nominated for the vice-presidency by a Congressional cancans, and was duly elected. In 18o8 he sought nomination for the presidency, and was greatly disappointed when this went to See also:Madison. He was again chosen as vice-See also:president, however, and died at Washington before the expiration of his term, on the 2oth of See also:April 1812. He was buried in the Congressional See also:Cemetery, from which in May 1908 his remains were transferred to See also:Kingston, N.Y. His casting See also:vote in the See also:Senate in 1811 defeated the See also:bill for the renewal of the See also:charter of the See also:Bank of the See also:United States.
The Public Papers of George Clinton (6 vols., New York, 1899-1902) have been published by the state of New York.
End of Article: CLINTON, GEORGE (1739-1812)
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