Governor of New York, U.S. Vice President. A member of the Democratic-Republican Party, he served as the 6th U.S. Vice President under the two terms of President James Monroe from March 4, 1817 until March 4, 1825. Born at his family estate of Fox Meadow, he attended Columbia College in New York City, New York where he studied law and graduated in 1795. Two years later, he was admitted to the bar and began practicing law in New York City. In 1801, he was a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention in 1801 and became a member of the New York State Assembly in 1804, and was elected to the 9th U.S. Congress, but resigned before the beginning of the term to accept an appointment as associate justice of the New York Supreme Court, serving from 1804 to 1807. In April 1807, he was elected governor of New York by defeating incumbent Governor Morgan Lewis and was re-elected to three additional terms, serving until 1817. During the War of 1812, he played an important role in reorganizing the state militia and promoted the formation of a standing state military force based on select conscription, often investing his own capital and borrowing money when the state legislature would not approve the necessary funds. In 1814, he declined an appointment as U.S. Secretary of State by President James Madison, instead accepting appointment as commander of the federal military district that included New York City. After the conclusion of the War of 1812, he failed to recover the money he invested in organizing the state militia, despite endless litigation, which took a toll on his health and induced the alcoholism that would later affect his performance as U.S. Vice President. In 1816, he was elected U.S. Vice President on the ticket with James Monroe and was reelected in 1820. He would be the last Vice President to be elected to two terms with the same President until Thomas R. Marshall was elected Vice President, first in 1912 with Woodrow Wilson and again in 1916. In 1820 while serving as the U.S. Vice President, he ran for Governor of New York against incumbent DeWitt Clinton and lost. From 1820 to 1821, he was Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of New York. He died at the age of 50, three months after leaving office and had the shortest post-vice presidency of any person who survived the office. Tompkinsville, a Staten Island, New York City neighborhood, Daniel D. Tompkins School in Staten Island, Tompkins County, New York (home of Cornell University & Ithaca College), Tompkinsville, Kentucky (located in Monroe County, which is named after President Monroe), Tompkins Park in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, Tompkins Square Park in Manhattan and Tompkins Road in Scarsdale, is named for him. In 1911, the Daniel D. Tompkins Memorial Chapel at the Masonic Home in Utica, New York was built in his honor.