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Granger, Gideon

lawyer, state senator, was born July 19, 1767, in Suffield, Conn. In 1793 he was elected a member of the legislature, and continued in that body several years. In 1801 he was appointed postmaster-general of the United States, and continued in that office until 1814, when he removed to the state of New York. In 1819 he was elected to the state senate. He gave one thousand acres of land in aid of the canal. He died Dec. 21, 1822, in Canandaigua, N. Y.

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