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DANIEL TOMPKINS

Daniel D Tompkins was Vice-President of the United States. He was born in 1774 and died in 1825. He was educated at Columbia, and became a leading lawyer and Democratic politician in the State of New York. He was a Judge in the Supreme Court of New York, and its Governor from 1807 until 1817. While holding this office he opposed the Bank and gave an efficient support to the War of 1812. Governor Tompkins was elected Vice-president in 1816 on the ticket with Monroe, and re-elected in 1820, serving from 1817 to 1825.
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