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James T. Van Rensselaer

Lawyer/Politician

Centurion, 1871–1876

Full Name James Tallmadge Van Rensselaer

Born 3 February 1842 in Albany, New York

Died 28 August 1899 in Boston, Massachusetts

Buried Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery, Poughkeepsie, New York

Proposed by Cyrus W. Field, John Priestley, and James B. Andrews

Elected 7 October 1871 at age twenty-nine