Elmer, Jonathan, 1745-1817

<ul><b>RACES</b>
<li>12/14/1803 NJ At-Large Lost 0.18% (-16.27%)</li>
<li>01/02/1799 NJ US Senate Lost 45.83% (-8.33%)</li>
<li>10/10/1798 NJ Southern District Lost 43.51% (-12.99%)</li>
<li>01/11/1797 NJ At-Large Lost 1.31% (-14.45%)</li> <li>10/10/1798 NJ Southern District Lost 43.51% (-12.99%)</li>
<li>12/30/1794 NJ At-Large Lost 2.05% (-11.56%)</li> <li>10/10/1798 NJ Southern District Lost 43.51% (-12.99%)</li>
<li>10/09/1792 NJ At-Large Lost 4.38% (-11.92%)</li>
<li>10/10/1798 NJ Southern District Lost 43.51% (-12.99%)</li>
<li>02/01/1789 NJ US Senate - Initial Election Won 100.00% (+100.00%)</li>
<li>10/10/1798 NJ Southern District Lost 43.51% (-12.99%)</li>
<li>12/31/1787 NJ Continental Congress Won 100.00% (+100.00%)</li>
<li>12/31/1786 NJ Continental Congress Won 100.00% (+100.00%)</li>
<li>12/31/1782 NJ Continental Congress Won 100.00% (+100.00%)</li>
<li>12/31/1781 NJ Continental Congress Won 100.00% (+100.00%)</li>
<li>12/31/1780 NJ Continental Congress Won 100.00% (+100.00%)</li>
<li>12/31/1777 NJ Continental Congress Won 100.00% (+100.00%)</li>
<li>12/31/1776 NJ Continental Congress Won 100.00% (+100.00%)</li>
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<p>Jonathan Elmer (November 29, 1745 – September 3, 1817) was an American politician, of the Pro-Administration (Federalist) Party.</p>

<p>Jonathan Elmer was born in Cedarville, New Jersey, in 1745. He was the son of Reverend Daniel Elmer and Abigail (Lawrence) Elmer. He was privately tutored until 1765, when he began attendance in the first class of medical students at the University of Pennsylvania. He received the degree of bachelor of medicine in 1768, and 1771 he received his doctor of medicine degree, the first awarded by an American university.</p>

<p>Elmer practiced medicine in Bridgeton and became active in government and politics. From 1772 to 1775, he served as sheriff of Cumberland County. During the American Revolutionary War he was a militia officer and attained the rank of captain as commander of a company. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1774.</p>

ELMER, Jonathan, (Brother of Ebenezer Elmer and uncle of Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus Elmer), a Delegate and a Senator from New Jersey; born in Cedarville, Cumberland County, N.J., November 29, 1745; completed preparatory studies; graduated from the first medical class of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1769 and practiced in Bridgeton, N.J.; high sheriff of Cumberland County 1772; chosen captain of a light infantry company 1775; Member of the Continental Congress 1777-1778, 1781-1783, and 1787-1788; member, State council 1780, 1784; trustee of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) 1782-1795; surrogate of Cumberland County 1784-1802; president of the State medical society 1787; elected to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1789, to March 3, 1791; appointed presiding judge of the county court of common pleas in 1802 and served until his resignation in 1804; appointed to the same office in the winter of 1813, but, in February 1814, declined to serve further because of impaired health; died in Bridgeton, N.J., September 3, 1817; interment in the Old Presbyterian Cemetery.