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Cadwallader David Colden (April 4, 1769 – February 7, 1834) was an American politician who served as the 54th Mayor of New York City and a U.S. Representative from New York. [1] Early life. Colden was born at Spring Hill in Flushing, the family home, on April 4, 1769, in the Province of New York. [1] .

Cadwallader Colden. The American botanist and politician Cadwallader Colden (1688-1776), a diverse thinker whose scholarship encompassed natural history, the nature of the universe, and medicine, was also lieutenant governor of New York. Cadwallader Colden was born on Feb. 7, 1688, in Ireland of Scottish parents; his father was a minister.

Cadwallader Colden (February 7, 1689–September 20, 1776), a Scottish physician and natural scientist, cultivated a garden at his country seat near the Catskill mountains of New York, where he conducted the first systematic, scientific documentation of plants native to that region.

…the first planetarium in America; Cadwallader Colden, the lieutenant governor of New York, whose accomplishments as a botanist and as an anthropologist probably outmatched his achievements as a politician; and Benjamin Rush, a pioneer in numerous areas of social reform as well as one of colonial America’s foremost physicians, were…

Cadwallader Colden (C.C.) Washburn was a U.S. Congressman, Civil War officer, industrial empire builder and founder of General Mills, and 11th governor of Wisconsin. Few people of his generation had as much influence on Wisconsin history. Early Life. Washburn grew up in Maine. He taught school there before moving to the Midwest to seek his fortune.

Colden published two books, The Life of Robert Fulton (1817) and Memoir at the Celebration of the Completion of the New York Canals (1825). Cadwallader D. Colden died at his residence in Jersey City on February 7, 1834.

Cadwallader Colden was a physician, natural scientist, a lieutenant governor and acting Governor for the Province of New York.

Cadwallader Colden’s History of the Five Indian Nations Depending on the Province of New-York in America, originally published in 1727 and revised in 1747, is one of the most important intellectual works published in eighteenth-century British America.