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JAMES KIRKE PAULDING (1778-186o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 958 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAMES See also:KIRKE See also:PAULDING (1778-186o)  , See also:American writer and politician, was See also:born in Dutchess See also:county, New See also:York, on the 22nd of See also:August 1778 . After a brief course at a See also:village school, he removed in 1800 to New York See also:City, where in connexion with his See also:brother-in-See also:law, See also:William See also:Irving, and See also:Washington Irving, he began in See also:January 1807 a See also:series of See also:short lightly humorous articles, under the See also:title of The Salmagundi Papers . In 1814 he published a See also:political pamphlet, "The See also:United States and See also:England," which attracted the See also:notice of See also:President See also:Madison, who in 1815 appointed him secretary to the See also:board of See also:navy commissioners, which position he held until See also:November 1823, Subsequently See also:Paulding was navy See also:agent in New York City from 1825 to 1837, and from 1837 to 1841 was secretary of the navy in the See also:cabinet of President See also:Van Buren . From 1841 until his See also:death on the 6th of See also:April 1860 he lived near See also:Hyde See also:Park, in Dutchess county, New York . Although much of his See also:literary See also:work consisted of political journalism, he yet found See also:time to write a large number of essays, poems and tales . From his See also:father, an active revolutionary patriot, Paulding inherited strong See also:anti-See also:British sentiments . He was among the first distinctively American writers, and protested vigorously against intellectual thraldom to the See also:mother-See also:country . As a See also:prose writer he is chaste and elegant, generally just, and realistically descriptive . As a poet he is gracefully See also:commonplace, and the only lines by Paulding which survive in popular memory are the See also:familiar " See also:Peter See also:Piper picked a See also:peck of pickled peppers: Where is the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked ?" which may be found in Koningsmarke . The following is a partial See also:list of his writings: The Diverting See also:History of See also:John See also:Bull and Brother See also:Jonathan (1812); The See also:Lay of the Scottish See also:Fiddle (1813), a See also:good-natured See also:parody on The Lay of the Last See also:Minstrel ; Letters from the See also:South (1817); The Backwoodsman: a Poem (1818) ; Salmagundi (2nd series, 1819–182o) ; A See also:Sketch of Old England, by a New England See also:Man (1822); Koningsmarke, the See also:Long Finne (1823), a quiz on the romantic school of See also:Walter See also:Scott; John Bull in See also:America; or the New See also:Munchausen (1824), a broad See also:caricature of the See also:early type of British traveller in America; The Merry Tales of the Three See also:Wise Men of See also:Gotham (1826) ; See also:Chronicles of the City of Gotham, from the Papers of a Retired See also:Common Councilman (183o); The Dutchman's Fireside (1831); Westward Hol (1832); A See also:Life of Washington (1835), ably and gracefully written; See also:Slavery in the United States (1836), in which he defends slavery as an institution; The See also:Book of See also:Saint See also:Nicholas (1837), a series of stories of the old Dutch settlers; American Comedies (1847), the See also:joint See also:production of himself and his son William J . Paulding; and The Puritan and his Daughter (1849) . The same son also published an edition of Paulding's Select See also:Works (4 vols., 1867-1868), and a See also:biography called Literary Life of See also:James K .

Paulding (New York, 1867) .

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