Hannah Minthorne Tompkins (August 28, 1781 – February 18, 1829) was the wife of
Daniel D. Tompkins, the governor of New York and later vice president of the United States, and thus was the
first lady of New York 1807 to 1817 and then the
second lady of the United States from 1817 to 1825.
Biography
Born on August 28, 1781, Hannah Minthorne was the second child of Mangle Minthorne (1740–1824), a prominent
Democratic-Republican Party
The Democratic-Republican Party (also referred to by historians as the Republican Party or the Jeffersonian Republican Party), was an American political party founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the early 1790s. It championed li ...
member in New York City,
[Homberger, Eric]
Mrs. Astor's New York: Money and Social Power in a Gilded Age
p. 55 (2002) by his second wife, Aryet Constable Minthorne (1743–1830), of New York City. On February 20, 1798, 16-year-old Hannah married Daniel D. Tompkins, a 23-year-old lawyer of the City.
[Irwin, Ray W]
Daniel D. Tompkins: Governor of New York and Vice President of the United States
p. 27 (1968)[(3 March 1798)]
Marriages
''The Weekly Magazine'', p. 160 (1798) At the time of the marriage, her father was Assistant in the Common Council, and young Tompkins had designs on a political career. Hannah was ill the year before her husband became vice president, and she did not attend his inauguration.
[Dunlap, Leslie W]
Our Vice-Presidents and Second Ladies
p. 32-34 (1988)
From 1800 to 1814, the couple had eight children, including Arietta Minthorn Tompkins (born July 31, 1800), who married a son of
Smith Thompson in 1818, and
(Mangle) Minthorne Tompkins (December 26, 1807 – June 5, 1881), who was the
Free Soil Party
The Free Soil Party, also called the Free Democratic Party or the Free Democracy, was a political party in the United States from 1848 to 1854, when it merged into the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party. The party was focused o ...
candidate for governor of New York in 1852. Their children Hannah and Minthorne were named after their mother, and Hannah and Minthorne streets in Staten Island were named for them.
[Platt, Tevah (3 June 2010)]
Neighborhood still memorializes Daniel Tompkins
''Staten Island Advance
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Hannah died on February 18, 1829, in Tompkinsville, Staten Island. She and her husband are buried in the Minthorne family vault at
St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie in lower Manhattan.
References
External links
Minthorne family history
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1781 births
1829 deaths
First ladies and gentlemen of New York (state)
People from Tompkinsville, Staten Island
Second ladies and gentlemen of the United States
Daniel D. Tompkins