Duane, James
jurist, statesman, was born Feb. 6, 1733, in New York city. He was a member of the continental congress from 1774 to 1784, and signed the articles of confederation. He attended the Indian treaty at Albany in August, 1775; was a member of the constitutional convention in 1776 and 1777, and on the committee which drafted it. He was a member of the committee of safety; in 1783 returned to New York city on its evacuation by the British, and became a member of the council. He was state senator in 1783 and 1784; first mayor of New York in 1784; member of the convention to adopt the federal constitution in 1788; United States district judge from 1789 to 1794. He died Feb. 1, 1797, in Duanesburg, N. Y.