Samuel L. Gouverneur

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Early life

Gouverneur was born in 1799 in New York City. His father was Nicholas Gouverneur (1753–1802), a merchant with the firm Gouverneur & Kemble,<ref name="Sturm-Lind2018">Template:Cite book</ref> and mother was Hester (née Kortright) Gouverneur (1770–1842), sister of the First Lady Elizabeth Kortright Monroe.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> His younger sister, Maria Charlotte Gouverneur (1801–1867), was married to Thomas McCall Cadwalader (1795–1873).<ref name="penn">Template:Cite book</ref>

His maternal grandparents were Lawrence Kortright, a wealthy merchant, and Hannah (née Aspinwall) Kortright.<ref name="Riker1881">Template:Cite book</ref> His paternal grandparents were Samuel Gouverneur (1720–1798) and Experience (née Johnson) Gouverneur (1720–1788).<ref name="Sturm-Lind2018"/> He was a first cousin of U.S. Representative Gouverneur Kemble (1786–1875) through his aunt Gertrude Gouverneur, wife of merchant Peter Kemble.<ref name="Sturm-Lind2018"/>

He graduated from Columbia College in 1817.<ref name="Pelletreau1907">Template:Cite book</ref>

Career

In 1824, Gouverneur was elected as a People's Party (faction of the Democratic-Republican party Template:Refn) member of the New York State Assembly, serving in the 48th New York State Legislature in 1825. He was aligned with Assembly Speaker Clarkson Crolius, also from New York County.<ref name="Hough1858">Template:Cite book</ref>

On November 19, 1828, he was appointed Postmaster of New York City, succeeding former U.S. Representative and Senator Theodorus Bailey who died in office on September 6, 1828.<ref name="TBbioguide">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> While in New York he invested in racehorses, and the Bowery Theatre along with James Alexander Hamilton, son of Alexander Hamilton, and Prosper M. Wetmore.<ref name="campbell"/> Gouverneur served as Postmaster until July 4, 1836, when he was succeeded by Jonathan J. Coddington.

Relationship with Monroe

Gouverneur served as private secretary to his uncle, the fifth U.S. President James Monroe who served two consecutive terms as President from March 4, 1817 until March 4, 1825.Template:Refn Gouverneur helped former president Monroe to press his claims to Congress to repay mounting debts. After Elizabeth Monroe's death in 1830, Monroe came to live at the Gouverneurs' home, and died there in 1831.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Gouverneur was executor of Monroe's estate, which had to be sold off to pay the debts.<ref name="loc">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Monroe was buried in the Gouverneur family vault at the New York City Marble Cemetery, until descendants had the remains moved to the James Monroe Tomb in the Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia. A ceremony was held at the Gouverneur vault 175 years later, on July 8, 2006.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Monroe's personal papers were left to Gouverneur, who also was asked to support his wife's sister Eliza Monroe Hay (also his cousin, then a widow).<ref name="Monroe1904">Template:Cite book</ref> Gouverneur started work on publishing the papers or a book on Monroe, but it was never finished. After Mrs. Hay died in 1840, the Gouverneurs moved to Washington, DC where he worked in the consular bureau of the U.S. Department of State from 1844 to 1849. After Congress agreed to buy the papers of President Madison, Gouverneur proposed a similar arrangement, which was concluded in 1850. Some personal papers would be retained for a few generations.<ref name="loc"/>

Personal life

On March 9, 1820, Gouverneur was married to Maria Hester Monroe, his first cousin and the daughter of President Monroe. The wedding was officiated by the Rev. William Dickinson Hawley<ref name="murder">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} Excerpt from Template:Cite book</ref> and was the first wedding held in the White House for a child of a president.Template:Refn Template:Refn The wedding was small, with only 42 guests and no cabinet members invited, and General Thomas Jesup served as groomsman for Gouverneur.<ref name="campbell"/> The couple went on a brief one-week honeymoon, and upon their return, Commodore and Mrs. Stephen Decatur gave them a reception at the Decatur House on May 20, 1820. Another ball was planned, but was cancelled due to Decatur's death two days later in a duel.<ref name="murder"/> After moving to New York, the Gouverneur's bought and lived at 63 and 65 Prince Street at Lafayette Street in Manhattan. Together, Samuel and Maria were the parents of four children:

a daughter, who died in infancy (d. September 4, 1821)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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James Monroe Gouverneur (1822–1885), a deaf-mute who died at the Spring Grove Asylum in Baltimore, Maryland;<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Elizabeth Kortright Gouverneur (1824–1868), who married Dr. Henry Lee Heishell, James M. Bibby, and Colonel G. D. Sparrier.<ref name="Pelletreau1907"/>
Samuel Laurence Gouverneur, Jr. (1826–1880), who married Marian Campbell (1821–1914), and became the first U.S. consul in Fuzhou, China (then spelled Foo Chow).<ref name="Pelletreau1907"/>

In 1832, the Gouverneurs' sold their Prince Street residence to Miles R. Burke.Template:Refn On June 20, 1850, his wife Maria died at the Oak Hill estate, which was sold two years later in 1852.

In September 1851, the widower Gouverneur married Mary Digges Lee (1810–1898), a granddaughter of Thomas Sim Lee (1745–1819). They retired to the Lee estate called "Needwood", near Frederick, Maryland and Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> This stressed family relations during the American Civil War, with Gouverneur associated with the Union government, while his in-laws had deep roots in the Confederate states.<ref name="campbell"/>

Death

Gouverneur died at his Needwood estate on September 29, 1865.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>Template:Refn His estate was left to his second wife.<ref name="loc"/>

Family

Descendants

His granddaughter Rose de Chine Gouverneur, born in China in 1860, married Roswell Randall Hoes (1850–1921) and died on May 26, 1933. Their sons Gouverneur Hoes (1889–1943) and Laurence Gouverneur Hoes (1900–1978) established the James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library in the Fredericksburg, Virginia building that housed the James Monroe Law Office, administered by the University of Mary Washington.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Template:Monroe family tree

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