Gulian Crommelin Verplanck
| Gulian C. Verplanck | |
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Portrait of Verplanck by John Wesley Jarvis, ca. 1811
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| Member of the New York State Senate from the 1st District (Class 3) |
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In office January 1, 1838 – 1841 |
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| Preceded by | Charles L. Livingston |
| Succeeded by | Isaac L. Varian |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 3rd district |
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In office March 4, 1825 – March 3, 1833 |
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| Preceded by |
Peter Sharpe John J. Morgan |
| Succeeded by |
Dudley Selden Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence |
| Member of the New York State Assembly from New York County | |
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In office July 1, 1820 – December 31, 1823 |
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| Personal details | |
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Gulian Crommelin Verplanck August 6, 1786 Manhattan, New York |
| Died | March 18, 1870 (aged 83) Manhattan, New York |
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Dem.-Rep./Bucktail (Assembly) Jacksonian (US Congress) Whig (NY Senate) |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Elizabeth Fenno (m. 1811; her death 1817) |
| Children | William Samuel Verplanck Gulian Verplanck |
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Daniel C. Verplanck Elizabeth Johnson |
| Relatives | William Samuel Johnson (grandfather) |
| Alma mater | Columbia College |
Gulian Crommelin Verplanck (August 6, 1786 – March 18, 1870) was an American attorney, politician, and writer. He was elected to the New York State Assembly and Senate, and later to the United States House of Representatives from New York, where he served as Chairman of the influential House Ways and Means Committee.
He served in a number of appointed positions of major institutions in New York: governor of New York Hospital; regent of the University of the State of New York, where in 1858, he became its Vice Chancellor, serving until his death more than a decade later; and President of the Board of Commissioners of Immigration for more than two decades.
Verplanck published articles and poetry in the North American Review, and was counted among the "Knickerbocker group". As a young man, he was among the organizers of the American Academy of the Fine Arts in New York City, which opened in 1802. It was intended to promote the study of classical art and help establish the city as a center of art. With tastes changing, it closed in 1840.
Gulian Crommelin Verplanck was born on August 6, 1786 in the family mansion at 3 Wall Street in New York City. He was the son of Elizabeth Johnson (d. 1789) and Congressman Daniel C. Verplanck (1762–1834), descendant of Dutch colonists. In 1789, his widowed father remarried to Ann Walton, and thereafter Gulian was brought up by his paternal grandmother, Judith Crommelin Verplanck. His great-uncle was Gulian Verplanck (1751–1799), two-time Speaker of the New York State Assembly. His maternal grandfather was William Samuel Johnson (1727–1819), the 3rd President of Columbia College and a U.S. Senator from Connecticut, and his great-grandfather was Samuel Johnson (1696-1772), the 1st President of Kings College.
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