George Clifford Maxwell was a U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

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 from New Jersey

New Jersey

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, father of John Patterson Bryan Maxwell

John Patterson Bryan Maxwell

John Patterson Bryan Maxwell was an American Whig Party politician who represented New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives from 1837–1839 and 1841-1843. He was the son of George C. Maxwell and the first cousin of George M...

. Maxwell's nephew George M. Robeson

George M. Robeson

George Maxwell Robeson was an American Republican Party politician and lawyer from New Jersey who served as a Union army general during the American Civil War, and then as Secretary of the Navy during the Grant administration. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1879 to...

 was United States Secretary of the Navy

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 and also served in Congress.

Biography

Born in Sussex County, New Jersey

Sussex County, New Jersey

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, Maxwell was graduated from Princeton College

Princeton University

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 in 1792. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1797 and practiced in Hunterdon County, New Jersey

Hunterdon County, New Jersey

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. He served as U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 1801 to 1803.

Maxwell was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Twelfth Congress (March 4, 1811 – March 3, 1813).
He resumed the practice of law in Flemington, New Jersey

Flemington, New Jersey

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, where he died March 16, 1816.
He was interred in Pleasant Ridge Cemetery in Raritan Township, New Jersey

Raritan Township, New Jersey

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