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    Gouverneur Morris (/ɡʌvərnɪər ˈmɒrɪs/ guh-vər-NEER MOR-ris; January 31, 1752 – November 6, 1816) was an American statesman, a Founding Father of the United...
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    Adams and Louisa Adams, he is usually called John Adams II to distinguish him from President John Adams, his grandfather. John Adams II was born in Quincy...
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  • William Howard Adams (1926 – July 5, 2023) was an American author, curator and lecturer on history and garden design. He was a senior fellow at the Dumbarton...
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  • United States. Gouverneur was born in 1799 in New York City. His father was Nicholas Gouverneur (1753–1802), a merchant with the firm Gouverneur & Kemble,...
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  • House for the weddings of Samuel L. Gouverneur to Maria Hester Monroe (the President's youngest daughter) and John Adams II to Mary Catherine Hellen. Hawley...
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    William Duer (March 18, 1743 – May 7, 1799) was a British-born American jurist, developer, and financial speculator from New York City. A Federalist,...
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    Robert R. Livingston, Gouverneur Morris, Harvard University (Harvard College): John Adams, Samuel Adams, Francis Dana, William Ellery, Elbridge Gerry...
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    involvement of those in Hamilton's circle such as Schuyler, William Duer, James Duane, Gouverneur Morris, and Rufus King as speculators was not favorable...
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    James Monroe (category College of William & Mary alumni)
    years after the deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Monroe was originally buried in New York at the Gouverneur family's vault in the New York City...
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    The Gouverneurs moved to New York City. Former President Monroe, upon losing his wife in 1830, moved in with them. President John Quincy Adams appointed...
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    William Short (1759–1849) was an American diplomat during the early years of the United States. He served as Thomas Jefferson's private secretary when...
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    William Henry Drayton (September 1742 – September 3, 1779) was an American Founding Father, planter, and lawyer from Charleston, South Carolina. He served...
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    L. Gouverneur. The first wedding of a child of a president in the White House. February 25, 1828: John Adams II (son of President John Quincy Adams) married...
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  • Republican March 4, 1857 – March 3, 1859 25th March 4, 1867 – March 3, 1871 ? Gouverneur Kemble Democratic 4th March 4, 1837 – March 3, 1841 Cold Spring ? Jack...
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    he was wary of signing the final document but was finally convinced by Gouverneur Morris to do so.: 133  Confident that North Carolina would gain more than...
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    "Catherine" Staats (1697–1731). After his mother died, his father married Sarah Gouverneur (1714–1786). He graduated from Yale College in 1746, and upon his father's...
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    Robb, the youngest Barron Trump. Two presidential children, John Quincy Adams and George W. Bush, have become president in their own right. Presidential...
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    had previously been the home of President James Monroe and Samuel L. Gouverneur. In 1848, she and her mother moved to Washington, D.C. They lived near...
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  • pride" in James Madison, James Wilson, Roger Sherman, John Dickinson, Gouverneur Morris, and the Pinckneys of South Carolina. For the early 19th century...
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    Saunders and Otley. 1837. OCLC 10278752. Morris, Gouverneur (1888). The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris. Vol. I. Anne Cary Morris. C. Scribner's...
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    Arrangement, composed of Alexander Hamilton, William Johnson, Rufus King, James Madison, and Gouverneur Morris, is selected to distill a final draft constitution...
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    contribute to The Federalist Papers: Madison and John Jay agreed, but Gouverneur Morris declined. I extended that into this fictional scene, wherein Hamilton...
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    Scottish Highlands. W. & A. K. Johnston. ISBN 9780717945009. Adams, William Howard (2008). Gouverneur Morris: An Independent Life. Yale University Press....
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    Republic. Lippincott. p. 190. Osborn Stoddard, William (1887). James Madison, James Monroe and John Quincy Adams. University Society. p. 190. Morgan 1921,...
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    Continental Army officers. He formed a close working relationship with Gouverneur Morris (no relation), a young New York congressman who shared many of...
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    unseat Vice President John Adams. Because the Constitution's rules essentially precluded Jefferson from challenging Adams, the party backed New York Governor...
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  • Huntington Oliver Wolcott Titus Hosmer Andrew Adams New York James Duane Francis Lewis William Duer Gouverneur Morris New Jersey John Witherspoon Nathaniel...
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    Jefferson Cary (1820–1873), ∞ 1842 : Gouverneur Morris Jr. (1813–1883) Judith Randolph (born 1724), ∞ 1744 : William John Stith (1707–1755) Mary Isham Randolph...
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    (1762–1851) and Frances Ludlam (1766–1852). Mary was the older sister of Lewis Gouverneur Morris (1808–1900), the granddaughter of Richard Morris (1730–1810), Chief...
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  • Ellicott – Washington, D.C. 1805 Augustus B. Woodward – Detroit 1811 Gouverneur Morris, John Rutherfurd, and Simeon De Witt – Commissioners' Plan of New...
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