James Duane

James Duane ( born February 6, 1733 in New York City; † February 1, 1797 in New York City or Duanesburg, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. In 1778 he was in Philadelphia at the signers of the Articles of Confederation.

After completing his school education and a degree in law James Duane was taken on August 3, 1754, the Bar Association, and he began to practice as a lawyer. In 1762 he was court official ( Clerk ) in the Court of Chancery ( Chancery Court ) of New York City. After working as Attorney General of the Province of New York in 1767, he returned to his private law firm.

Duane served in 1774 as an Indian commissioner of the province before he was first elected in the following year, in the wake of the American Revolution to the delegates to the Provincial Convention, and later a member of the Revolutionary Committee. Between 1776 and 1783 he took part in the meetings of the Continental Congress. He also sat from 1776 to 1777 in the Provincial Congress, and from 1782 to 1785 and from 1788 to 1790 in the Senate from New York. In the meantime, he practiced from 1784 to 1789 from the office of mayor of New York, where he was the successor to the Loyalist David Mathews, the first patriot on this post.

In 1788, Duane was one of the delegates to the State Convention which ratified the Constitution of the United States for New York. Subsequently, he was appointed by President George Washington to the judge at the Federal District Court for New York on 25 September 1789 he took his duties of his office the following day until his resignation on March 17, 1794 true. Where Duane died on February 1, 1797, has not been clarified; He was buried at Christ Church, Duanesburg.