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Columbia County
New York

Politicians who were born in Columbia County

Columbia County (no city given): David Van Ness, 1745 — Elijah Spencer, 1775 — Walter Patterson, c.1777 — Joel Tallmadge, Jr., 1788 — Henry Perrin Coon, 1822 — James H. Tripp, 1832 — William H. Smith, 1833 — John C. Hogeboom, c.1837 — William D. Barnes, 1856 — Earl H. Miller, c.1870    Ancram: Albert Miller Card, 1845    Boston Corner, Mass. (now N.Y.): William H. Barnum, 1818    Canaan: Asa Adgate, 1767 — Daniel Cady, 1773 — John King, 1775 — William Bristol, 1775 — Daniel Greene Garnsey, 1779 — Benjamin P. Johnson, 1793 — Elias W. Leavenworth, 1803 — Wheeler H. Bristol, 1818 — Charles L. Beale, 1824    Chatham: Nathaniel P. Tallmadge, 1795 — Charles Mosher, 1822 — William P. Lyon, 1822 — Kenneth H. Fake, 1895    Claverack: Jacob R. Van Rensselaer, 1767 — John C. Hogeboom, 1768 — William W. Van Ness, 1776 — Robert Le Roy Livingston, 1778 — William P. Van Ness, 1778 — John Gebhard, 1782 — Killian Miller, 1785 — Robert Monell, 1787 — Henry Hogeboom, 1809 — John J. Tallmadge, 1818 — Cyrus C. Miller, c.1867 — Randall N. Saunders, 1868    Claverly (now Ghent): John P. Van Ness, 1770    Clermont: Robert R. Livingston, 1718 — Edward Livingston, 1764 — Thomas B. Van Buren, 1824 — Jacob H. Stewart, 1829 — Robert R. Livingston, 1888    Germantown: Henry Rockefeller, 1778 — Thomas Fitzgerald, 1796 — Simon S. Rockefeller, 1804 — John P. Rockefeller, 1845    Ghent: James L. Hogeboom, 1766 — Louis F. Payn, 1835    Hillsdale: Lot Clark, 1788 — Ambrose L. Jordan, 1789 — Samuel Birdsall, 1791 — Ezra Dean, 1795 — John F. Collin, 1802 — Edward Stowe Hamlin, 1808 — Ephraim Lockwood, 1814    Hudson: Joshua Lee, 1783 — John C. Spencer, 1788 — John Van Buren, 1810 — William Van Ness Bay, 1818 — Justus A. Ferris, 1823 — John H. Bagley, Jr., 1832 — Henry P. Ford, 1837 — Walter C. Hamm, 1847 — Coert du Bois, 1881 — Henry M. James, 1885 — Roger J. Miner, 1934    Kinderhook: John E. Van Alen, 1749 — Barent Gardenier, 1776 — Barent Van Buren, 1776 — Martin Van Buren, 1782 — Cornelius P. Van Ness, 1782 — Thomas Beekman, 1790 — John F. Driggs, 1813 — William S. Groesbeck, 1815 — Sanford W. Smith, 1869    Kinderhook Landing: Benjamin F. Butler, 1795    Linlithgo: Henry W. Livingston, 1768    Livingston: Henry I. Patrie, 1874    New Lebanon: Ransom H. Gillet, 1800 — Abraham Phineas Grant, 1804 — Moses Y. Tilden, 1811 — Samuel J. Tilden, 1814 — George H. Williams, 1823 — Phineas W. Hitchcock, 1831 — Henry Z. Osborne, 1848    Red Rock: Elias W. Bostwick, 1828    Valatie: Martin H. Glynn, 1871 — Burns Barford, 1891    Near Waterloo: Charles E. Stuart, 1810    West Copake: Peter R. Livingston, 1789     See also New York birthplaces not assigned to counties.

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