乔纳森·戴顿，国会，新泽西州(1760-1824)

乔纳森·代顿市(Elias Dayton之子)，新泽西州的代表、众议员和参议员;1760年10月16日出生于新泽西州伊丽莎白镇(现在的伊丽莎白);1776年毕业于新泽西学院(现在的普林斯顿大学);学习法律;获得律师资格;独立战争期间，在大陆军第三团和后来的第二新泽西团服役1776年至1783年，获得上尉军衔;在新泽西州伊丽莎白镇被俘，后来被交换;1786-1787年，1790年，州大会成员，并于1790年担任议长;1787年参加联邦制宪会议并签署宪法;1787-1788年大陆会议代表; member, State council 1790; elected to the Second and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1791-March 3, 1799); Speaker of the House of Representatives (Fourth and Fifth Congresses); chairman, Committee on Elections (Third Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1798, having become a candidate for the United States Senate; elected as a Federalist to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1799, to March 3, 1805; was arrested in 1807 on the charge of conspiring with Aaron Burr in treasonable projects; subsequently released and never brought to trial; member, New Jersey assembly 1814-1815; died in Elizabethtown, N.J., October 9, 1824; interment in a vault in St. John’s Churchyard; the city of Dayton, Ohio, was named for him.

参考书目

美国传记词典；小贝弗利·邦德主编。约翰·克利夫斯·赛姆斯的书信．纽约:麦克米伦公司，1926年。

资料来源:美国国会传记目录，1771年至今