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Daniel D. Tompkins
6th Vice President of the United States
In office March 4, 1817 – March 4, 1825
President	James Monroe
Preceded by	Elbridge Gerry
Succeeded by	John C. Calhoun
5th Governor of New York
In office July 1, 1807 – February 24, 1817
Lieutenant(s)	John Broome (1807-1810) John Tayler (1810-1811) DeWitt Clinton (1811-1813) John Tayler (1813-1817)
Preceded by	Morgan Lewis
Succeeded by	John Tayler
Born	June 21, 1774(1774-06-21) Scarsdale, New York
Died	June 11, 1825 (aged 50) Tompkinsville, Staten Island, New York
Nationality	American
Political party	Democratic-Republican
Spouse	Hannah Minthorne Tompkins
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Daniel D. Tompkins (June 21, 1774 – June 11, 1825) was an entrepreneur, jurist, Congressman, Governor of New York, and the sixth Vice President of the United States.

Contents 1 Name 2 Early life and career 3 Governor 4 Vice President 5 Legacy 6 Sources 7 External links

There is evidence that Daniel Tompkins's middle name was Decius.^{[citation needed]} However, others believe that he added the middle initial "D" (which stood for nothing) while a student at Columbia College, to distinguish himself from another Daniel Tompkins there.

He was born in Fox Meadows (later Scarsdale), Westchester County, New York. He graduated from Columbia College in New York City, in 1795. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1797, practicing in New York City. Tompkins was a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention in 1801, a member of the New York State Assembly in 1803, and was elected to the United States Congress, but resigned before the beginning of the term to accept an appointment as associate justice of the Supreme Court of New York, in which capacity he served from 1804 to 1807.

On April 30, 1807, he defeated the incumbent Governor Morgan Lewis - Tompkins received 35,074 votes, Morgan Lewis 30,989 - and remained in office as Governor of New York until 1817. He was reelected in 1810, defeating Jonas Platt - Tompkins 43,094 votes, Jonas Platt 36,484; in 1813, defeating Stephen Van Rensselaer - Tompkins 43,324 votes, Van Rensselaer 39,718; and in 1816, defeating Rufus King - Tompkins 45,412 votes, King 38,647. He declined an appointment as United States Secretary of State by President James Madison. In 1815 Tompkins established a settlement and along the eastern shore of Staten Island that came to be called Tompkinsville. In 1817 he built a dock along the waterfront in the neighborhood and began offering daily steam ferry service between Staten Island and Manhattan.

He was elected Vice President on the ticket with James Monroe in 1816, and was reelected in 1820, serving from March 4, 1817 to March 4, 1825. Attempting to unseat the incumbent DeWitt Clinton, he ran in April 1820, as a sitting vice president, for Governor of New York and lost - Clinton received 47447 votes, Tompkins 45900. He was a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention in 1821, serving as its president.

While as governor of New York, Tompkins personally borrowed money and used his own property as collateral when the New York state legislature would not approve the necessary funds for the War of 1812. After the war, neither the state nor the federal government reimbursed him so he could repay his loans. Years of litigation did not end until 1824, and it took a toll on his health. Tompkins fell into alcoholism, and as vice president he at times presided over the Senate while drunk. He died in Tompkinsville, three months after retiring as Vice President, and was interred in the Minthorne vault in St. Mark's Churchyard, New York City. Tompkins had the shortest post-vice presidency of any person who survived the office: 99 days (March 4, 1825–June 11, 1825).

Tompkins County, Tompkins Square Park in Manhattan, and the Town of Tompkins are named after him. Daniel D. Tompkins gained a slight notoriety in 20th century cinema, when he was mentioned by Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street during his psychological evaluation. (However, the screenplay erred: Kringle mentions that Tompkins served as vice-president under John Quincy Adams when Adams's vice-president was actually John C. Calhoun. The error is most likely due to confusion arising from the fact that Tompkins was the 6th vice-president and Quincy Adams was the 6th president. However, the two did not serve office concurrently because previous presidents had multiple vice-presidents).

His brother Caleb Tompkins (1759-1846) was a United States Representative from New York from 1817 to 1821.

Preceded by Morgan Lewis	Governor of New York 1807 – 1817	Succeeded by John Tayler
Preceded by Elbridge Gerry	Democratic-Republican vice presidential candidate 1816 (won), 1820 (won)	Succeeded by John C. Calhoun(1)
	Vice President of the United States March 4, 1817 – March 4, 1825
Notes & References
1. The Republican Party party splintered in the election of 1824. Calhoun was the most prominent of several Republican vice presidential candidates, winning more than six times as many votes as his nearest competitor.

• [1] New York history, with election results 1807 and 1810
• [2] New York history, with election results 1813 and 1816
• [3] Political Graveyard
• [4] Congress Bio

• Find-A-Grave profile for Daniel D. Tompkins

• Daniel D. Tompkins at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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v • d • e Vice Presidents of the United States of America

John Adams · Thomas Jefferson · Aaron Burr · George Clinton · Elbridge Gerry · Daniel D. Tompkins · John C. Calhoun · Martin Van Buren · Richard Mentor Johnson · John Tyler · George M. Dallas · Millard Fillmore · William R. King · John C. Breckinridge · Hannibal Hamlin · Andrew Johnson · Schuyler Colfax · Henry Wilson · William A. Wheeler · Chester A. Arthur · Thomas A. Hendricks · Levi P. Morton · Adlai E. Stevenson I · Garret Hobart · Theodore Roosevelt · Charles W. Fairbanks · James S. Sherman · Thomas R. Marshall · Calvin Coolidge · Charles G. Dawes · Charles Curtis · John Nance Garner · Henry A. Wallace · Harry S. Truman · Alben W. Barkley · Richard Nixon · Lyndon B. Johnson · Hubert Humphrey · Spiro Agnew · Gerald Ford · Nelson Rockefeller · Walter Mondale · George H. W. Bush · Dan Quayle · Al Gore · Dick Cheney

v • d • e Cabinet of President James Monroe (1817-1825)
Vice President	Daniel D. Tompkins (1817 – 1825)
Secretary of State	John Quincy Adams (1817 – 1825)
Secretary of the Treasury	William H. Crawford (1817 – 1825)
Secretary of War	John C. Calhoun (1817 – 1825)
Attorney General	Richard Rush (1817) • William Wirt (1817 – 1825)
Postmaster General	Return J. Meigs, Jr. (1817 – 1823) • John McLean (1823 – 1825)
Secretary of the Navy	Benjamin Williams Crowninshield (1817 – 1818) • Smith Thompson (1819 – 1823) • Samuel L. Southard (1823 – 1825)