1. Jonas Platt was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
17 Facts About Jonas Platt
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Jonas Platt was a member of the United States House of Representatives.
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Jonas Platt was the son of politician and lawyer Zephaniah Platt, who founded Plattsburgh, New York, and his second wife, Mary Van Wyck Platt.
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Jonas Platt attended a French Academy at Montreal, Quebec, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1790.
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Jonas Platt practiced law in Poughkeepsie and served as the county clerk of Herkimer County, New York, from 1791 to 1798.
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Jonas Platt was the county clerk of Oneida County, New York, from 1798 to 1802.
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Jonas Platt was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1796.
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Jonas Platt was elected as a Federalist to the Sixth Congress, and served from March 4,1799, to March 3,1801.
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Jonas Platt was the chairman of the United States House Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business.
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Jonas Platt was a member of the New York State Senate from 1809 to 1813.
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Jonas Platt was a member of the Council of Appointment in 1813.
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From 1814 to 1821, Jonas Platt was an associate justice of the New York Supreme Court.
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Jonas Platt was a delegate to the New York Constitutional Convention in 1821.
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Jonas Platt married Helena Livingston, the daughter of Dr Henry Livingston and Susannah Storm Livingston, of the Livingston family.
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Jonas Platt was the sister of Continental Congressman Gilbert Livingston, the Rev Dr John Henry Livingston, president of Queen's College, and author Henry Livingston Jr.
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Jonas Platt died on February 22,1834, in Peru, Clinton County, New York.
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Jonas Platt was buried at the Riverside Cemetery in Plattsburgh.