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Dayton, Jonathan, 1760-1824
Statesman; born in Elizabethtown, N. J., Oct. 16, 1760; son of Elias; graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1776; entered the army as paymaster of his father's regiment in August; aided in storming a redoubt at Yorktown, which was taken by Lafayette; and served faithfully until the close of the war. He was a member of the convention that framed the national Constitution in 1787, and was a representative in Congress from 1791 to 1799.
He was speaker in 1795, and was made United States Senator in 1799.
He held the seat until 1805.
He served in both branches of his State legislature.
Suspected of complicity in Burr's conspiracy, he was arrested, but was never prosecuted.
He died in Elizabethtown, Oct. 9, 1824.