Daniel D. Tompkins, Class of 1795 (Classic Reprint)

Class of 1795 FEW more striking instances of the self-made man can be found in the history of this country than the farmers boy who was four times elected governor of the State of New York, and twice elected vice-president of the United States. The son of a Westchester farmer, born and bred on a farm, Daniel D. Tompkins was fully entitled to the popular sobriquet, which distinguished him during his political career from his more aristocratic rival, De Witt Clinton, and his remarkable success was due in no small degree to the fact that he was a man of the people. His training for College, such as it was, he acquired between the furrows, and while he certainly inherited the spirit which distinguished his father, his patrimony consisted of little else but blood and brains. His ancestors came from the north of England and settled at Plymouth prior to 1640. His grandfather, Nathaniel Tompkins, removed in 1665 to Eastchester, of which he was one of the first proprietors, and his father, Jonathan G. Tompkins, combined farming with public duties, serving throughout the Revolution as a member of the legislature, and also as a member of the State Convention that adopted the Declaration of Independence and the first constitution of theS
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