Daniel d tompkins biography

“Who was the Vice President under John Quincy Adams? — Daniel D. Tompkins. And I’ll bet your Mr. Sawyer doesn’t know that!”

It’s a line from that classic Christmas movie, “Miracle On Thirty Fourth Street.” In that scene the protagonist, Kris Kringle, tries to demonstrate that not only isn’t he delusional, but is so in touch with reality he can recall trivial facts most people couldn’t possibly remember.
Unfortunately, in typical Hollywood fashion, they actually got the trivia wrong.

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Tompkins was Vice president under Adams’ predecessor, James Monroe, which only serves to reinforce the point of how obscure Tompkins seems to us today.

That’s a shame. Because not only did Tompkins serve as Vice President for two terms, but as Governor of New York during the War of 1812, he played a vital role in protecting a state that was at the epicenter of the conflict.

His nearly ten years at the helm of state government, was the lo