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unusual facts about United States Senate election in New York, 1797



Aaron Kitchell

He was elected to the Third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Abraham Clark and was reelected to the Fourth Congress, serving from January 29, 1795, to March 4, 1797.

Andrew Douglas

Andrew Snape Douglas (1761–1797), Scottish sea captain in the Royal Navy

Antonio Gutiérrez de Otero y Santayana

Antonio Gutiérrez de Otero y Santayana (May 8, 1729 – May 14, 1799) was a Spanish Lieutenant General best known for repelling Admiral Nelson's attack on Santa Cruz de Tenerife in 1797.

Betsey Guppy Chamberlain

Betsey Chamberlain's origins are obscure, but she has been identified with Betsey Guppy, born on 29 December 1797 in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, beside Lake Winnipesaukee.

Castillo San Felipe del Morro

1797 – Ralph Abercromby (General Ralph Abercromby) and Henry Harvey (Admiral Henry Harvey), with a force of 7,000–13,000 men, invaded the island of Puerto Rico.

Cherimoya

The first planting in Italy was in 1797, and it became a favored crop in the Province of Reggio Calabria.

Chernihiv

The area in general was ruled by the Governor-General appointed from Saint Petersburg, the imperial capital, and Chernihiv was the capital of local namestnichestvo (province) (from 1782), Malorosiyskaya or Little Russian (from 1797) and Chernigov Governorate (from 1808).

Concord Foreshore Trail

It then continues around Concord Repatriation General Hospital, located on Yaralla Bay, and past the Yaralla Estate, one of the oldest estates in Sydney, dating back to 1797.

Domitila de Castro, Marchioness of Santos

Domitila (or Domitília) de Castro do Canto e Melo (São Paulo, December 27, 1797 — São Paulo, November 3, 1867), 1st Viscountess with designation as a Grandee, then 1st Marchioness of Santos, was a Brazilian noblewoman and the long-term mistress and favorite of Emperor Dom Pedro I.

Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby

Six weeks after the first Lady Derby's death, at the age of 44 on 14 March 1797, he married the actress Elizabeth Farren, daughter of George Farren, on 1 May 1797.

Elihu Palmer

Palmer kept writing until the end of his life and published a number of different written works including "A Fourth of July Oration" (1797), and was also the author of The Principles of Nature, or A Development of the Moral Causes of Happiness and Misery among the Human Species.

Elizabeth Lewis

Betty Washington Lewis (1733–1797) was the only sister of George Washington to live to adulthood

Félix Lionnet

Félix Lionnet was a French Painter born at La Châtaigneraie Vendée on December 15, 1832, the son of Félix Lionnet (1797–1842), a goldsmith, and his wife Marthe Clémentine Lebel (1810–1866).

Hagaparken

Hagaparken has historically been favoured by Swedish royalty, especially Gustav III who founded it and developed it 1780-1797, and by the famous troubadour Carl Michael Bellman, a contemporary of Gustav III, who is much associated with Haga due to the lyrics of his compositions, poems and his writings.

Harriet Raikes

Harriet Raikes was the daughter of Thomas Raikes the Younger, a merchant and banker in London, and the granddaughter of Thomas Raikes the Elder, also merchant and banker in London and Governor of the Bank of England from 1797 to 1799.

Henry Cuffe

In 1797 James Cuffe (d. 1821), in direct line of descent from this Sir James Cuffe, was made Baron Tyrawley of Ballinrobe, County Mayo.

Highland Light

In 1797, a station authorized by George Washington was established at this point on the Cape, with a wood lighthouse to warn ships about the dangerous coastline between Cape Ann and Nantucket.

Ingeborg Akeleye

Daughter of Jens Werner Akeleye (d. 1772) and Martha Bruun (d. 1797), she married Herman Løvenskiold (1739–1799) in Copenhagen in 1763.

James Kānehoa

James Young Kānehoa (1797–1851) was a member of the court of King Kamehameha II and Kamehameha III during the Kingdom of Hawaii.

Jean-Gilles Filhol de Camas

Promoted to Commander on 21 March 1796, he was appointed to the Zélé, but suspended on 2 October 1797 for his relations to one of the deportees of the Coup of 18 Fructidor; he was reinstated on 14 December 1799 after his superiors protested.

José Antonio Conde

In 1796–1797, he published paraphrases from Theocritus, Bion, Moschus, Sappho and Meleager.

Louis Gustave le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant

Doulcet was subsequently elected to the French Directory's Council of Five Hundred, but was suspected of Royalist sympathies, and had to spend some time in retirement between anti-monarchist coup of 18 Fructidor (4 September 1797) and the establishment of the Consulate (the 18 Brumaire coup of 9 November 1799).

Ludovico Manin

He governed Venice from 9 March 1789 until 1797, when he was forced to abdicate by Napoleon Bonaparte.

Ludwig Förster

Ludwig Christian Friedrich (von) Förster (October 8, 1797, Ansbach - June 16, 1863, Bad Gleichenberg, Steiermark) was a German-born Austrian architect.

María de los Remedios de Escalada

María de los Remedios de Escalada (November 20, 1797 — August 3, 1823) was the wife of the leader of the Argentine War of Independence, General José de San Martín.

María Santos Corrales

María Santos Corrales (November 1, 1797 – 1881) was the inspiration of Peru's famous poet and patriot soldier, Mariano Melgar; she is forever immortalized as "Silvia" in his poetry.

Mind over matter

The exact phrase "mind over matter" first appeared in 1863 in The Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man by Sir Charles Lyell (1797–1875) and refers to the increasing status and evolutionary growth of the minds of animals and man throughout Earth history.

Nafata of Gobir

Sultan Nafata of Gobir (r.1797–98), one of a series of rulers of the small Hausa state, today in northern Nigeria.

Netherlands Missionary Society

Netherlands Missionary Society (Dutch: Nederlandsche Zendelinggenootschap) was a Dutch Protestant missionary society founded in 1797 in Rotterdam that was involved in sending workers to countries such as Indonesia during the Dutch occupation and China during the Qing Dynasty.

North Shore, Staten Island

Frederick Douglass spoke at the Fountain Hotel; Anna Leonowens of "The King and I" fame, owned a school at the corner of Richmond Terrace and Tompkins Court; Cornelius "Commodore" Vanderbilt, railway tycoon and patriarch of the Vanderbilt family, was born in the area in 1797.

Oney Judge

Their January 1797 marriage was listed in the town records of Greenland and published in the local newspaper.

Port of Split

After the fall of Venice, Split was briefly ruled by the Habsburg Monarchy and Austrian Empire between 1797 and 1806, and the First French Empire until 1813 when Austrian rule was restored.

Richard Cheslyn

Richard Cheslyn (born 17 December 1797 at Langley Priory, Leicestershire; died 29 December 1858 at Shelford, Nottinghamshire) was an English amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1825 to 1846.

Samuel Mason

By 1797, he moved the base of his river piracy further downriver to Cave-in-Rock on the Illinois shore.

Samuel-Auguste Tissot

Samuel Auguste André David Tissot (20 March 1728, Grancy - 13 June 1797, Lausanne) was a notable 18th century Swiss physician.

Sir John Swinburne, 6th Baronet

Charles Henry (1797–1877), Royal Navy officer; he married Jane Henrietta, daughter of George Ashburnham, 3rd Earl of Ashburnham, and they had six children, of whom the second was the poet Algernon Charles Swinburne.

St Mark's Clocktower

There was originally a statue of the Doge Agostino Barbarigo (Doge 1486-1501) kneeling before the lion, but in 1797, after the city had surrendered to Napoleon, this was removed by the French, who were purging the city of all symbols of the old regime.

Steffeln

After the occupation of the lands on the Rhine’s left bank by French Revolutionary troops in 1794 and the French annexation of the Austrian Netherlands between 1795 and 1797, Steffeln became the seat of a mairie (“mayoralty”) in the Canton of Kronenburg, the Arrondissement of Malmedy and the Department of Ourthe, whose seat was in Liège.

The Algerine Captive

The Algerine Captive: or the Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill: Six Years a Prisoner among the Algerines is one of America's first novels, published anonymously in 1797 by early American author Royall Tyler.

Trinity Church Cemetery

Walter Livingston (1740–1797), delegate to the Continental Congress

Twofold Bay

The diaries of Bass show that he noted the bay when he passed it on his whaleboat voyage to Bass Strait in 1797/8.

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Gouverneur Morris had been elected in 1800 to complete the term (1797-1803) after Philip Schuyler (1797-98), John Sloss Hobart (1798), William North (1798) and James Watson (1798-1800) had occupied the seat.

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Hamilton Fish belonged to the Seward/Weed faction, but was also a close friend of Henry Clay who was one of the leaders of the Fillmore faction in Washington, D.C. He was thus considered the only viable compromise candidate.

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The two Greenback assemblymen John Banfield (Chemung Co.) and George E. Williams (Oswego Co.) voted for 87-year old Peter Cooper, a New York City inventor, industrialist and philanthropist who had run for U.S. President in 1876 on the Greenback ticket.

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The Democratic primary campaign featured State Attorney General Robert Abrams, former U.S. Congresswoman and 1984 vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro, Reverend Al Sharpton, Congressman Robert J. Mrazek, and New York City Comptroller and former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman.

Unlawful Oaths Act 1797

The Unlawful Oaths Act 1797 (37 Geo. III, c. 123) was an Act passed by the British Parliament.

Vijaya Raghunatha Raya Tondaiman II

Vijaya Raghunatha Raya Tondaiman (c 1797 - 4 June 1825) was the ruler of the princely state of Pudukkottai from 1 February 1807 to 4 June 1825.

Von Görschen

He was a successful commander during the War of the First Coalition in the region of Piemont 1797 and also during the War of the Second Coalition around Taufers (South Tyrol) and Susch (Engadin) in 1799 against Napoleon Bonaparte’s army.

William Blackledge

Born in Craven County, North Carolina (his birthdate remains unknown), Blackledge was a member of the North Carolina House of Commons from 1797 to 1799 before being elected to the 8th United States Congress in 1802.


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