YEARS 1771-1816
OFFICE Representative
STATE New Jersey
POLITICAL PARTY Republican
WHICH CONGRESS SERVED 12th (1811-1813)
Representative George Clifford MAXWELL Biography
MAXWELL, George Clifford, (father of John Patterson Bryan Maxwell), a Representative from New Jersey; born in Sussex County, N.J., on May 31, 1771; was graduated from Princeton College in 1792; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1797 and practiced in Hunterdon County, N.J.; elected as a Republican to the Twelfth Congress (March 4, 1811-March 3, 1813); resumed the practice of law in Flemington, N.J., where he died March 16, 1816; interment in Pleasant Ridge Cemetery Raritan Township, Hunterdon County, N.J. View Record in the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
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