William Hale Maynard (November 23, 1786 – August 28, 1832) was an American lawyer, newspaper editor and politician from New York.

Life

He was born on November 23, 1786, in Conway, then a town in Hampshire County which in 1811 became a part of

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. He was the son of Malachi Maynard and Anna (Hale) Maynard. He graduated from

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in 1810. Then he studied law with Joseph Kirkland at

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, and was admitted to the bar. From 1811 on, he edited the ''Utica Patriot''. He was an Anti-Masonic member of the New York State Senate (5th D.) from 1829 until his death in 1832, sitting in the 52nd, 53rd, 54th and 55th New York State Legislatures. Maynard died on August 28, 1832, of cholera while preparing in

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to attend the session of the Court for the Correction of Errors (then the highest court in the State, composed of the Chancellor, the Supreme Court justices and the State Senate); and was buried at the Hamilton College Cemetery in Clinton, NY. Maynard never married. In his will, he bequeathed $20,000 to establish a law school at

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Sources

''The New York Civil List''
compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 128f and 143; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858) *Obituary i
''The American Annual Register for the Year 1832-33''
(William Jackson, New York City, 1835; pg. 416)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Maynard, William H 1786 births 1832 deaths People from Conway, Massachusetts Williams College alumni Politicians from Utica, New York New York (state) state senators Deaths from cholera 19th-century American newspaper editors Anti-Masonic Party politicians from New York (state) 19th-century American politicians Journalists from New York (state)