DWIGHT, Theodore, (cousin of Aaron Burr), a Representative from Connecticut; born in Northampton, Mass., December 15, 1764; completed preparatory studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1787, and began practice in Haddam, Conn.; moved to Hartford, Conn., in 1791 and continued the practice of law; editor of the Hartford Courant and of the Connecticut Mirror; member of the state council, 1909-1815; elected as a Federalist to the Ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Cotton Smith, and served from December 1, 1806, to March 3, 1807; declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1806; secretary of the Hartford Convention, 1814; moved to Albany, N.Y., in 1815; newspaper editor; published the Albany Daily Advertiser 1815-1817; moved to New York City in 1817 and established the New York Daily Advertiser, with which he was connected until the great fire of 1835; moved to Hartford, Conn.; returned to New York City around 1843; died on June 12, 1846, in New York City, N.Y.; interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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[ Top ][Alsop, Richard, and Theodore Dwight]. The echo, with other poems. New York: [Printed at the Porcupine Press by P. Petronius], 1807.
Dwight, Theodore. The character of Thomas Jefferson, as exhibited in his own writings. Boston: Weeks, Jordan & Company, 1839.
------. History of the Hartford Convention: With a review of the policy of the United States Government, which led to the War of 1812. New York: N. & J. White; Boston: Russell, Odiorne, & Co., 1833. Reprint, Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, [1970].
------. An oration, delivered at New-Haven on the 7th of July, A.D. 1801, before the Society of the Cincinnati, for the state of Connecticut, assembled to celebrate the anniversary of American independence. Hartford: Printed by Hudson and Goodwin, 1801.
------. An oration, spoken at Hartford, in the state of Connecticut, on the anniversay of American independence, July 4th, 1798. Hartford: Printed by Hudson and Goodwin. 1798.
------. An oration, spoken before the Connecticut Society for the Promotion of Freedom and the Relief of Persons Unlawfully Holden in Bondage: Convened in Hartford, on the 8th day of May, A.D. 1794. Printed at Hartford: By Hudson and Goodwin, 1794.
