Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
Date | Event |
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1763, July 31 | Born, southeastern New York (now Putnam County) |
1781 | B.A., Yale University, New Haven, Conn. |
1781-1784 | Apprenticed to law office of Egbert Benson, New York attorney general, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. |
1784 | M.A., Yale University, New Haven, Conn. |
1785 | Admitted to New York bar Married Elizabeth Bailey |
1785-1793 | Practiced law in partnership with Gilbert Livingston, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. |
1786 | Commissioned paymaster in the New York state militia |
1790-1794 | Member, New York assembly |
1794-1798 | Professor of law, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. |
1796-1798 | Member, New York assembly |
1797-1798 | Recorder, New York, N.Y. |
1798 | Appointed to New York supreme court |
1799-1823 | Resided in Albany, N.Y. |
1804 | Appointed chief justice, New York supreme court |
1814 | Appointed chancellor, New York court of chancery |
1823 | Forced by provision in state constitution to retire as chancellor of New York court of chancery |
1824-1826 | Professor of law, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. |
1828 | President, New-York Historical Society |
1847, Dec. 12 | Died, New York, N.Y. |