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| Name | Cornelius Peter Van Ness |
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Burlington, Vermont , United States |
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January 26, 1782
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| Died | December 15, 1852
(70 years)
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| Contributor | Joshua L. |
| Last Modifed | BrentinCO
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| Info | Cornelius Peter Van Ness, jurist, born in Kinderhook, New York, 26 January, 1782: died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 15 December, 1852, was educated for the bar, removed to Burlington, Vermont, and practiced his profession with success until 1809, when he became United States district attorney. From that year until his death he occupied public office.
He was collector of the port of Burlington in 1815-'18, a commissioner to settle the United States boundary-lines under the treaty of Ghent in 1817-'21, a member of the legislature in 1818-'21, having been chosen, as a Democrat, chief justice of Vermont in 1821-'3, governor from the latter date till 1829, and United States minister to Spain in 1829-'37. In 1844-'5 he was collector of the port of New York. The University of Vermont gave him the degree of LL.D. in 1823. He published a "Letter to the Public on Political Parties, Caucuses, and Conventions" (Washington, D. C., 1848).-
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