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Verplanck, Gulian Crommelin was born on August 6, 1786 in New York City. Son of Daniel C. and Elizabeth (Johnson) Verplanck.
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Gulian Crommelin Verplanck, American congressman. member of New York State Assembly, 1820-1822; member United States House of Representatives (Democrat) from New York, 19th-22d congresses, 1825-1833, chairman ways and means committee, 1831-1833, chiefly instrumental in obtaining law to improve authors’ copyrights, 1831; member board regents U. State New York, 1826-1870, vice-chancellor, 1858-1870; member of New York Senate, 1838-1841.
Education
Graduate Columbia, 1801. Read law under Josiah O. Hoffman.
Career
Admitted to New York bar, 1807. Involved in Columbia commencement riot, 1811, fined by presiding judge De Witt Clinton, became and remained polemical enemy of Clinton. Travelled in Europe, 1815-1817.
Company-founder (with Charles King) New York American, 1817.
Member of New York State Assembly, 1820-1822. Professor General Theological Seminary of Episcopal Church, New York City, 1821-1824.
Member United States House of Representatives (Democrat) from New York, 19th-22d congresses, 1825-1833, chairman ways and means committee, 1831-1833, chiefly instrumental in obtaining law to improve authors’ copyrights, 1831. Member board regents U. State New York, 1826-1870, vice-chancellor, 1858-1870.
Editor Talisman, 1828.
Member of New York Senate, 1838-1841. President Board Commissioners of Emigration, 1848-1870. Author: A Fable for Statesmen and Politicians, 1815.
The State Triumvirate, a Political Tale, and the Epistles of Brevet Major Pindar Puff, 1819.
Essays on the Nature and Uses of the Various Evidences of Revealed Religion, 1824. Discourses and Addresses on Subjects of American History, Arts, and Literature, 1833.
Shakespeare's Plays: with His Life, 1847.
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Membership
Member of New York State Assembly, 1820-1822. Member United States House of Representatives (Democrat) from New York, 19th-22d congresses, 1825-1833, chairman ways and means committee, 1831-1833, chiefly instrumental in obtaining law to improve authors’ copyrights, 1831. Member board regents U. State New York, 1826-1870, vice-chancellor, 1858-1870.
Member of New York Senate, 1838-1841.
Connections
Married Mary Elizabeth Fenno, October 2, 1811, 2 sons including Julian Crommelin.
