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Daniel D. Tompkins

Vice President of the United States from 1817 to 1825

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Daniel D. Tompkins was an American politician who served as the sixth vice president of the United States from 1817 to 1825. He previously served as the fourth governor of New York from 1807 to 1817.

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“Daniel D. Tompkins” enters the record as vice President of the United States from 1817 to 1825. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Daniel, Tompkins and Vice can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Daniel D. Tompkins” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.