biography
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| (1774–1825)
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| biography:
| US vice-president and governor, born in Fox Meadows (now Scarsdale), New York, USA. He was governor of New York (1807–17), and during his vice-presidency under James Monroe (1817–25), he was plagued by charges that he had mishandled New York state finances during the War of 1812. After his death, audits showed that the state owed money to the Tompkins family, and his descendants received $92 000. |
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