Robert Yates
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Robert Yates (1738 – September 9, 1801) was an American politician and judge best known for his Anti-Federalist positions.
He is also known as the presumed author of political papers published in 1787 and 1788 under the pseudonyms "Brutus" and "Sydney."
The essays condemned the United States' Constitution.
Early life
Robert Yates was born in Schenectady, New York, in the oldest of twelve children of merchant Joseph Yates and Maria (née Dunbar) Yates. Uncle Abraham Yates Jr., who served as mayor of Albany in the 1790s and cousin Peter Waldron Yates, a New York State Assemblyman, was one of his many relatives. Christoffel Yates, a wealthy farmer and blacksmith, and (née Winne) Yates were his paternal grandparents.
He studied the surveyor's art and then chose law as a career. He began practising on his own after clerking for William Livingston in New York City in 1760.
Personal life
He married Jannette "Jane" Van Ness (1741-1818) in Albany, New York, and settled there in 1765. Jane was a niece of Kinderhook's Judge Peter Van Ness. John Peter Van Ness, William P. Van Ness, and Cornelius P. Van Ness were among her extended families.The couple had six children, including:
He died in Albany, New York, at the age of 63. He was first buried at St. Peter's Cemetery but later reinterred at Albany Rural Cemetery.
Career
Surveying enhanced Yates' attorney's income as he created a number of important land maps in the 1760s. In 1770, he drew Albany's first civilian map. Through his uncle, alderman Abraham Yates Jr., he also depended on the Albany Corporation for patronage. He was elected an alderman for the second ward in 1771. He served on a variety of committees, provided legal assistance, and finally began to compile and publish the first published version of the City of Albany's "Laws and Ordinances" in 1773.
He was instrumental in the local resistance to the Stamp Act from the start of the war for American independence, although he did not sign the Albany Sons of Liberty constitution of 1766. He had joined the Albany Committee of Correspondence and been one of the committee's first members by 1774 when it was first established. He was still a member of the Albany common council at that time, but its duties were being replaced by the extra-legal committee of Correction, Safety, and Protection. He was the second ward on the committee and was in close contact with it from his previous offices until it was decommissioned in 1778. He served as secretary of the Board of Indian Commissioners at the same time, a position that required him to travel to the frontier.
Yates was elected to represent Albany in each of the four New York Provincial Congresses beginning in 1775. The first three met in New York, while the last one, which was commemorated following the Declaration of Independence, met under duress in several Hudson Valley locations. He was on the committee that drafted the first New York State Constitution in 1776-77 and was also a member of the "Secret Committee on Obstructing Navigation of the Hudson."
Yates was appointed to the New York Supreme Court on May 8th, 1777.
Yates maintained modest legal practice and continued surveying after the war ended, although chiefly an associate justice of the state Supreme Court. His political star began to rise in Governor George Clinton's "party" during the 1780s, speaking in opposition to the extension of the scope of a national government. He was elected with John Lansing Jr. and Alexander Hamilton to represent New York at the Philadelphia Convention in 1787 in order to rewrite the Articles of Confederation. Many people arriving in Philadelphia, Yates, and Lansing said the convention's call to establish a completely new type of government was beyond their boundaries. They returned home after sending Governor Clinton a letter urging opposition to the new Constitution. In 1821, Yates' personal notes from the Philadelphia convention were published.
Yates was elected as an anti-federalist delegate to the New York State's ratifying convention at Poughkeepsie in 1788 and protested the Constitution's acceptance of the Constitution. He was one of the most vocal delegate delegate in favor of individual rights at the Poughkeepsie Convention. Yates pledged his support as a matter of patriotic responsibility after the Poughkeepsie Convention ratified the Constitution with accompanying demand for amendments to guarantee individual rights.
He ran for governor against George Clinton in 1789, but Anti-Federalists regarded him as a intelligent, potentially kindred spirit who was not from a wealthy family. Governor Clinton defeated him. Yates refused to run again in 1792, citing the financial hardship wrought by past politicking. Yates' candidacy was widely supported in the former Anti-Federal camp during the 1790s, when he was firmly established in the center of the nexus movement. In a close election, John Jay defeated him, effectively ending Yates' political career. By then, he had already committed himself to the cause.
Yates was elected Chief Justice of the New York State Supreme Court in September 1790. In 1798, he served until the mandatory retirement age of sixty. Unlike many "new men of the Revolution," he did not achieve a lot of money and retired to his middling Albany home, which was not unlike many "new guys of the Revolution."