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Nathaniel Pitcher (November 30, 1777 – May 25, 1836) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the eighth Governor of New York from February 11 to December 31, 1828. ==Biography== The son of Nathaniel Pitcher, Sr. (died 1802), Pitcher was educated in the local schools of Litchfield and moved to Sandy Hill, New York (now Hudson Falls) with his family. He served as town supervisor of Kingsbury, New York from 1804 to 1810. He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1806 and 1815–1817, surrogate judge of Washington County in 1812 and 1813, town clerk of Kingsbury in 1813 and 1814, and a justice of the peace. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced. He was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses (March 4, 1819 – March 3, 1823). He was a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention in 1821. Pitcher was Lieutenant Governor of New York in 1827 and 1828 and became Governor upon the death of Governor DeWitt Clinton. He was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-second Congress (March 4, 1831 – March 3, 1833). Pitcher died in Hudson Falls on May 25, 1836, aged 58, and was buried at Baker Cemetery in Hudson Falls. The town of Pitcher in Chenango County is named after him. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nathaniel Pitcher」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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