James Duane
| James Duane | |
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| 44th Mayor of New York City | |
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In office 1784–1789 |
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| Preceded by | David Mathews |
| Succeeded by | Richard Varick |
| U.S. District Judge for the District of New York | |
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In office September 26, 1789 – March 17, 1794 |
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| Appointed by | George Washington |
| Preceded by | Created |
| Succeeded by | John Laurance |
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| Born | February 6, 1733 New York City, Province of New York |
| Died | February 1, 1797 (aged 63) Schenectady County, New York |
| Resting place | Christ Church in Duanesburg, NY 42°46′08″N 74°09′19″W / 42.76896°N 74.15517°W |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Livingston |
| Relations |
George W. Featherstonhaugh, Jr. (grandson) James Chatham Duane (great-grandson) |
| Religion | Episcopalian |
James Duane (February 6, 1733 – February 1, 1797) was an American lawyer, jurist, and Revolutionary leader from New York. He served as a delegate to the Continental Congress, a New York state senator, the 44th mayor of New York City, the first post-colonial American mayor, and a U.S. District Judge. Duane was a signer of both the Continental Association and the Articles of Confederation.
James Duane was born on February 6, 1733, in New York City in the then Province of New York. His parents were Eva Benson and Anthony Duane (c. 1679–1747), a Protestant Irishman from County Galway in Ireland who first came to New York as an officer of the Royal Navy in 1698. By the time of his James' birth, Anthony had become a wealthy Anglo-Irish colonial settler. Like others of colonial background, Anthony considered himself merely settling from one part of the British Empire to another as a free subject. Consequently, he maintained strong allegiance to the crown throughout his life, values which he later passed on to his son. He met and courted Eva Benson, whose father, Dirck, was a local American merchant. In 1702 Anthony left the navy, settled in New York, and married Eva. They had two sons before her death. When Eva died, Anthony remarried, this time to Althea Ketaltas (Hettletas), the daughter of a wealthy Dutch merchant family. Anthony entered commerce and prospered, and the couple had a son, James.
Duane's mother, Althea, died in 1736, and his father married a third time in 1741 to Margaret Riken (Rycken), the widow of Thomas Lynch of Flushing, New York. When Anthony died in 1747, James became the ward of American aristocrat Robert Livingston, who was known as the 3rd Lord of the Manor. He completed his early education at Livingston Manor, then read law as a clerk in the offices of James Alexander.
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