George Clinton the first, and longest serving governor of New York, was born in Orange County, New York on July 26, 1739. He served as clerk of the Common Pleas Court in 1759, and was the district attorney in 1765. In 1774, George Clinton served on the New York Committee of Correspondence, and was a member of the Continental Congress from 1775 to 1776. He voted for the Constitution, but did not sign it. Clinton, who was a supporter of George Washington, became brigadier general of the militia in 1775. George Clinton passed away on April 20, 1812, and was buried in the First Dutch Reformed Church Cemetery in Kingston, New York.