Schuyler, Philip John, 1733-1804

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<ul><b>RACES</b>
<li>02/07/1797 NY US Senate Won 100.00% (+100.00%)</li>
<li>02/08/1791 NY US Senate Lost 27.55% (-20.41%)</li>
<li>07/01/1789 NY US Senate Won 100.00% (+100.00%)</li>
<li>05/01/1783 NY Governor Lost 13.55% (-61.95%)</li>
<li>12/31/1779 NY Continental Congress Won 100.00% (+100.00%)</li>
<li>12/31/1778 NY Continental Congress Won 100.00% (+100.00%)</li>
<li>06/01/1777 NY Governor Lost 31.67% (-16.61%)</li>
<li>12/31/1776 NY Continental Congress Won 100.00% (+100.00%)</li>
<li>12/31/1774 NY Continental Congress Won 100.00% (+100.00%)</li>
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<p>Philip John Schuyler (November 20 [O.S. November 9] 1733 – November 18, 1804) was an American general in the Revolutionary War and a United States Senator from New York. He is usually known as Philip Schuyler, while his son is usually known as Philip J. Schuyler.</p>

<p>Born in Albany, Province of New York, into the prosperous Schuyler family, Schuyler fought in the French and Indian War. He won election to the New York General Assembly in 1768 and to the Continental Congress in 1775. He planned the Continental Army's 1775 Invasion of Quebec, but poor health forced him to delegate command of the invasion to Richard Montgomery. He prepared the Continental Army's defense of the 1777 Saratoga campaign, but was replaced by General Horatio Gates as the commander of Continental forces in the theater. Schuyler resigned from the Continental Army in 1779.</p>

<p>Schuyler served in the New York State Senate for most of the 1780s and supported the ratification of the United States Constitution. He represented New York in the 1st United States Congress but lost his state's 1791 Senate election to Aaron Burr. After a period in the state senate, he won election to the United States Senate again in 1797, affiliating with the Federalist Party. He resigned due to poor health the following year. He was the father of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton and the father-in-law of Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.</p>

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SCHUYLER, Philip John, (Father of Philip Jeremiah Schuyler), a Delegate and a Senator from New York; born in Albany, N.Y., November 20, 1733; attended the common schools of Albany and studied under a private tutor in New Rochelle, N.Y.; served in the British Army and was commissioned captain in 1755; appointed chief commissary in 1756; resigned from the British Army in 1757; rejoined in 1758 as a major; sent to England to settle colonial claims in 1758; returned in 1763 and engaged in the lumber business in Saratoga, N.Y.; built the first flax mill in America; member, New York assembly 1768; Member of the Continental Congress 1775, 1777, and 1779-1780; appointed one of the four major generals in the Continental Army in 1775 and resigned in 1779; member, New York State senate 1780-1784, 1786-1790; elected to the United States Senate and served from July 16, 1789, to March 3, 1791; unsuccessful candidate for reelection; member, State senate 1792-1797; elected to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1797, to January 3, 1798, when he resigned because of ill health; died in Albany, N.Y., November 18, 1804; interment in Albany Rural Cemetery.