Daniel Crommelin Verplanck (March 19, 1762 - March 29, 1834) was a United States Representative from New York

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. Born in New York City

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, he was educated under private tutors and graduated from Columbia College

Columbia College of Columbia University

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 (later Columbia University

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) in New York City in 1788. He studied law, was admitted to the bar

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 and commenced practice in New York City in 1789; he also engaged in banking.

Verplanck was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Isaac Bloom

Isaac Bloom

Isaac Bloom was a United States Representative from New York.He was born in Jamaica, Queens County, and later moved to Clinton, Dutchess County, New York...

. He was reelected to the Ninth and Tenth Congresses and served from October 17, 1803 to March 3, 1809; he was not a candidate for renomination in 1808, and resumed the practice of law. From 1828 to 1830 he was judge of the Court of Common Pleas

New York Court of Common Pleas

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 of Dutchess County

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. In 1834 he died at his home, Mount Gulian

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, near Fishkill

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; interment was in Trinity Church Cemetery, Fishkill.

Daniel Verplanck's son, 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...

, was also a U.S. Representative from New York.