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Paulding, James Kirke
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| Writer and public official, born in Great Nine Partners (now Putnam Co), New York, USA. He had little formal schooling, but became a friend of Washington Irving and moved to New York City (c.1796) to live with Washington's brother, William Irving. He worked as a public official, and in 1807–8 he collaborated with Washington Irving on Salmagundi, a literary magazine. His public career included appointments as secretary of the board of navy commissioners under President James Madison (1815–23), navy agent for New York under President James Monroe (1824–38), and secretary of the navy in President Martin Van Buren's cabinet (1838–41). He is best known for his popular and humorous essays, his burlesques of the British, as in John Bull in America (1825), and novels, such as Westward Ho! (1832). In 1846 he retired and settled near Hyde Park, NY. |
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