Gulian Verplanck (speaker)
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Life
He was the youngest of the six children of Gulian Verplanck (1698–1751) and Mary Crommelin Verplanck. After graduating from King's College (now Columbia UniversityColumbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
) in 1768, he went to Holland to acquire practical experience in mercantile and banking procedures by working at his uncle's firm, Daniel Crommelin and Sons.
In 1784 he married Cornelia Johnston. They lived in New York with their seven children in the vicinity of Riverside Drive and 123rd Street.
He was a Federalist member from New York County of the New York State Assembly
New York State Assembly
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, and was Speaker
Speaker of the New York State Assembly
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in 1789-90 and 1796-97. He became President of the Bank of New York
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and in 1792 helped found the Tontine
Tontine
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Association, a precursor of the New York Stock Exchange
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He was an uncle of Daniel C. Verplanck
Daniel C. Verplanck
Daniel Crommelin Verplanck was a United States Representative from New York. Born in New York City, he was educated under private tutors and graduated from Columbia College in New York City in 1788...
and great-uncle of Gulian Crommelin Verplanck
Gulian Crommelin Verplanck
Gulian Crommelin Verplanck was a New York politician and sometime man of letters.-Biography:Verplanck was born in Wall Street in New York City, the son of Congressman Daniel C. Verplanck. He graduated B.A. from Columbia College in 1801, then studied law with Josiah Ogden Hoffman and was admitted...
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Sources
- http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_Art/vr/verplanck/verplanck_object3.asp Short bio
- History of Political Parties in the State of New-York by John Stilwell Jenkins (Alden & Markham, Auburn NY, 1846)