Background
Dayton, Jonathan was born on October 16, 1760 in Elizabethtown (now Elizabeth), New Jersey, United States. Son of General Elias Dayton.
Dayton, Jonathan was born on October 16, 1760 in Elizabethtown (now Elizabeth), New Jersey, United States. Son of General Elias Dayton.
Graduated from College New Jersey (now Princeton).
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Member New Jersey Assembly, 1786-1787, 1814-1815, speaker, 1790. Member Continental Congress from New Jersey, 1787-1789. Member New Jersey Council, 1789.
Member United States Senate from New Jersey, 1799-1805.