WILKIN, James Whitney, (father of Samuel Jones Wilkin), A Representative from New York; born in Wallkill, Orange (now Ulster) County, N.Y., in 1762; was graduated from Princeton College in 1785; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1788 and began practice in Goshen, N.Y.; member of the New York state assembly in 1800; served in the Revolutionary War; entered the New York state militia and rose to the rank of major general; served in the New York state senate, 1801-1804 and 1811-1814; member of the New York state assembly, 1808 and 1809, and served as speaker in the latter year; member of the council of appointment in 1802, 1811, and 1813; elected as a Democratic Republican to the Fourteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Jonathan Fisk; reelected to the Fifteenth Congress (June 7, 1815-March 3, 1819); unsuccessful candidate for United States Senate in 1815; county clerk of Orange County, N.Y., 1819-1821; county treasurer for several years; died on February 23, 1845, in Goshen, N.Y.; interment in Slate Hill Cemetery, Goshen, N.Y.
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