Tompkins
DANIEL D., an American statesman; born in Fox Meadows, Westchester co., N.
Y., June 21, 1774; was graduated at Columbia College in 1795 and admitted to the New York bar in 1796. He was a member of the legislature and the State Constitutional Convention in 1801; member of Congress in 1804, but soon he resigned to become Judge of the Supreme Court of New York. He was Governor in 1807-1817, and Vice- President of the United States in 1817-1825. He was a delegate to the State Constitutional Convention of 1821, contributed money and troops to the national government in the War of 1812, during which he commanded the 3d Military District; and in a message to the New York legislature in 1817, recomthe total abolition of slavery in that State, an act which brought about the passage of the bill against slavery which took effect on July 4, 1827. He died in Staten Island, N. Y., June 11, 1825.