In 1812, DeWittClinton ran against James Madison, who had just launched an unpopular war.
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Born in the Bronx borough of New York City, Macaulay spent "rough days" at DeWittClinton High School, afflicted by overcrowding and ethnic tensions.
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The American Bible Society was founded in 1816 at City Hall, in New York City, by such luminaries as New York Governor DeWittClinton and writer James Fenimore Cooper.