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James Kirke Paulding
James Kirke Paulding
11th United States Secretary of the Navy
	In office; July 1, 1838 – March 4, 1841
President	Martin Van Buren
Preceded by	Mahlon Dickerson
Succeeded by	George E. Badger
Personal details
Born	August 22, 1778; Pleasant Valley, New York, U.S.
Died	April 6, 1860 (aged 81); Hyde Park, New York, U.S.
Political party	Democratic-Republican (Before 1825); Democratic (1825–1860)
Spouse	Gertrude Kemble

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James Kirke Paulding (August 22, 1778 – April 6, 1860) was an American writer and, for a time, the United States Secretary of the Navy. Paulding's early writings were satirical and violently anti-British, as shown in The Diverting History of John Bull and Brother Jonathan (1812). He wrote numerous long poems and serious histories. Among his novels are Konigsmarke, the Long Finne (1823) and The Dutchman's Fireside (1831). He is best known for creating the inimitable Nimrod Wildfire, the "half horse, half alligator" in The Lion of the West (1831), and as collaborator with William Irving and Washington Irving in Salmagundi. (1807–08). Paulding was also, by the mid-1830s, an ardent and outspoken defender of slavery, and he later endorsed southern secession from the union.

Biography

James Kirke Paulding was born on August 22, 1778,^[1] at Pleasant Valley, Dutchess County, New York. His parents were William Paulding and Catherine Ogden.^[2] Paulding was chiefly self-educated.

He became a close friend of Washington Irving. With Irving, Paulding proposed a literary project. As he described, "one day in a frolicsome mood, we broached the idea of a little periodical merely for our own amusement, and that of the town, for neither of us anticipated any further circulation."^[3] The result was Salmagundi; a short-lived satirical periodical, from which the word 'Gotham' was first ascribed as a name for New York City.^[4]

Along with Irving, Paulding was associated with the "Knickerbocker Group", a group which also included William Cullen Bryant, Gulian Crommelin Verplanck, Fitz-Greene Halleck, Joseph Rodman Drake, Robert Charles Sands, Lydia Maria Child, and Nathaniel Parker Willis.^[5]

Paulding's other writings also include The Diverting History of John Bull and Brother Jonathan (1812), a satire, The Dutchman's Fireside (1831), a romance which attained popularity, A Life of Washington (1835), and some poems. Extracts from his epic poem The Backwoodsman (1818) were popularly reprinted throughout his life.^[6] In the decade before Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper achieved popular success, Paulding experimented in every genre in an effort to forge a new American literature. Thereafter, his outstanding contributions were in the novel and in a stage comedy. Koningsmarke (1823), which he began as a spoof of Walter Scott's historical romances, took unexpected hold of his imagination and became a well-turned novel, notable for its portrait of an old black woman that anticipates William Faulkner and for its sympathetic yet unromanticized depiction of the Indian. The Lion of the West (1831), selected in a play competition in which William Cullen Bryant was one of the judges, presented a cartoon of Davy Crockett; it was the most-often performed play on the American stage before Uncle Tom's Cabin, and an altered version enjoyed success in London. Paulding's View of Slavery in the United States (1836) was a comprehensive defense of both Black slavery and America's claim to be a bastion of liberty against the attacks of abolitionists and European critics.

Among Paulding's government positions were those of secretary to the Board of Navy Commissioners in 1815–23 and Naval Agent in New York in 1824–38. President Martin Van Buren appointed him Secretary of the Navy in June 1838. As Secretary, he was a conservative figure, whose extensive knowledge of naval affairs was balanced by notable lack of enthusiasm for new technology. He opposed the introduction of steam-propelled warships declaring that he would "never consent to let our old ships perish, and transform our Navy into a fleet of (steam) sea monsters." Nevertheless, his tenure was marked by advances in steam engineering, wide-ranging exploration efforts, enlargement of the fleet and an expansion of the Navy's apprenticeship program.

In 1839, Paulding was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society.^[7]

Paulding left office with the change of administrations in March 1841, returned to literary pursuits and took up agriculture. He died at his farm near Hyde Park, New York. He is interred at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.

USS James K. Paulding (DD-238) was named in honor of Secretary of the Navy Paulding.

Personal life

Paulding married Gertrude Kemble (d. 1841) on 15 November 1818.^[2] Gertrude was the daughter of New York merchant Peter Kemble and the sister of U.S. congressman Gouverneur Kemble.^[8] They had four sons:

Peter Kemble Paulding (1819–1900)^[9]
William Irving Paulding (1825–1890)^[10]
Gouverneur Paulding (1829–1913)^[11]^[12]
James Nathaniel Paulding (1833–1898)^[13]

Oft-quoted phrase

Paulding's story, "The Politician" contains a maxim that is often attributed to Samuel Gompers: "Reward your friends and punish your enemies." The story appears in his collection, Tales of the Good Woman, by a Doubtful Gentleman. The same basic idea (a definition of justice as doing good to friends and harm to enemies), appears in Plato's dialogue, the Republic, where it is subsequently rejected as inadequate.

Important works

1807–1808 – Salmagundi (with Washington Irving)
1812 – The Diverting History of John Bull and Brother Jonathan
1813 – The Lay of the Scottish Fiddle
1818 – The Backwoodsman
1820 – Salmagundi. Second Series
1822 – A Sketch of Old England by a New England Man^[14]
1823 – Koningsmarke, the Long Finne
1825 – John Bull in America, or the New Munchausen
1826 – The Merry Tales of the Three Wise Men of Gotham
1828 – The New Mirror for Travellers
1829 – Tales of the Good Woman, by a Doubtful Gentleman
1830 – Chronicles of the City of Gotham
1831 – The Dutchman's Fireside
1832 – Westward Ho!
1835 – Life of George Washington, in two volumes
1836 – View of Slavery in the United States
1836 – The Book of St. Nicholas
1838 – A Gift from Fairy Land
1846 – The Old Continental, or the Price of Liberty
1849 – The Puritan and his Daughter

Legacy and honors

The World War II Liberty Ship SS James K. Paulding was named in his honor.

References

^ Nelson, Randy F. The Almanac of American Letters. Los Altos, California: William Kaufmann, Inc., 1981: 45. ISBN 0-86576-008-X
^ ^a ^b "James Kirke Paulding". www.nndb.com. Retrieved October 18, 2022.
^ Jones, Brian Jay. Washington Irving: An American Original. New York: Arcade Publishing, 2008: 57. ISBN 978-1-55970-836-4
^ Burrows, Edwin G. and Mike Wallace. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. (Oxford University Press, 1999), 417.
^ Nelson, Randy F. The Almanac of American Letters. Los Altos, California: William Kaufmann, Inc., 1981: 30. ISBN 0-86576-008-X
^ John Hay, Postapocalyptic Fantasies in Antebellum American Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2017), 62. ISBN 9781108418249
^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved April 9, 2021.
^ Paulding, William I. (1867). Literary life of James K. Paulding / compiled by his son. New York: Charles Scribner. p. 116.
^ "Sims family papers, 1775-1931". researchworks.oclc.org. Retrieved October 18, 2022.
^ "Century Archives – The Century Association Archives Foundation". www.centuryarchives.org. Retrieved October 18, 2022.
^ Norris, Elizabeth N. (2009). Cold Spring, Hot Foundry: An Archaeological Exploration of the West Point Foundry's Paternal Influence Upon the Village of Cold Spring and its Residents. p. 107.
^ Forlow, Trudie A. Grace and Mark (2014). West Point Foundry. Arcadia Publishing. p. 89. ISBN 978-1-4671-2064-7.
^ "Century Archives – The Century Association Archives Foundation". www.centuryarchives.org. Retrieved October 18, 2022.
^ "Review of A Sketch of Old England ...". The Quarterly Review. 30: 519–542. January 1824.

External links

"The Knickerbocker's Rescue Santa Claus" – an excerpt from Kirke Paulding's "The Book of Saint Nicholas" (1836)

Government offices
Preceded by Mahlon Dickerson	United States Secretary of the Navy 1838–1841	Succeeded by George E. Badger

[1] Nelson, Randy F. The Almanac of American Letters. Los Altos, California: William Kaufmann, Inc., 1981: 45. ISBN 0-86576-008-X

[:0-2] "James Kirke Paulding". www.nndb.com. Retrieved October 18, 2022.

[3] Jones, Brian Jay. Washington Irving: An American Original. New York: Arcade Publishing, 2008: 57. ISBN 978-1-55970-836-4

[4] Burrows, Edwin G. and Mike Wallace. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. (Oxford University Press, 1999), 417.

[5] Nelson, Randy F. The Almanac of American Letters. Los Altos, California: William Kaufmann, Inc., 1981: 30. ISBN 0-86576-008-X

[6] John Hay, Postapocalyptic Fantasies in Antebellum American Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2017), 62. ISBN 9781108418249

[7] "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved April 9, 2021.

[8] Paulding, William I. (1867). Literary life of James K. Paulding / compiled by his son. New York: Charles Scribner. p. 116.

[9] "Sims family papers, 1775-1931". researchworks.oclc.org. Retrieved October 18, 2022.

[10] "Century Archives – The Century Association Archives Foundation". www.centuryarchives.org. Retrieved October 18, 2022.

[11] Norris, Elizabeth N. (2009). Cold Spring, Hot Foundry: An Archaeological Exploration of the West Point Foundry's Paternal Influence Upon the Village of Cold Spring and its Residents. p. 107.

[12] Forlow, Trudie A. Grace and Mark (2014). West Point Foundry. Arcadia Publishing. p. 89. ISBN 978-1-4671-2064-7.

[13] "Century Archives – The Century Association Archives Foundation". www.centuryarchives.org. Retrieved October 18, 2022.

[14] "Review of A Sketch of Old England ...". The Quarterly Review. 30: 519–542. January 1824.

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+'''James Kirke Paulding''' (August 22, 1778 – April 6, 1860) was an American writer and, for a time, the [[United States Secretary of the Navy]]. Paulding's early writings were satirical and violently anti-British, as shown in ''The Diverting History of John Bull and Brother Jonathan'' (1812). He wrote numerous long poems and serious histories. Among his novels are ''Konigsmarke, the Long Finne'' (1823) and ''The Dutchman's Fireside'' (1831). He is best known for creating the inimitable Nimrod Wildfire, the "half horse, half alligator" in ''The Lion of the West'' (1831), and as collaborator with William Irving and [[Washington Irving]] in ''[[Salmagundi (periodical)|Salmagundi]].'' (1807–08). Paulding was also, by the mid-1830s, an ardent and outspoken defender of slavery, and he later endorsed southern secession from the union.
+==Biography==
-{{A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature}}
+James Kirke Paulding was born on August 22, 1778,<ref>Nelson, Randy F. ''The Almanac of American Letters''. Los Altos, California: William Kaufmann, Inc., 1981: 45. {{ISBN|0-86576-008-X}}</ref> at [[Pleasant Valley (town), New York|Pleasant Valley]], [[Dutchess County, New York|Dutchess County]], New York. His parents were William Paulding and Catherine Ogden.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=James Kirke Paulding |url=https://www.nndb.com/people/127/000177593/ |access-date=2022-10-18 |website=www.nndb.com}}</ref> Paulding was chiefly self-educated.
+He became a close friend of [[Washington Irving]]. With Irving, Paulding proposed a literary project. As he described, "one day in a frolicsome mood, we broached the idea of a little periodical merely for our own amusement, and that of the town, for neither of us anticipated any further circulation."<ref>Jones, Brian Jay. ''Washington Irving: An American Original''. New York: Arcade Publishing, 2008: 57. {{ISBN|978-1-55970-836-4}}</ref> The result was ''[[Salmagundi (periodical)|Salmagundi]]; ''a short-lived satirical periodical, from which the word 'Gotham' was first ascribed as a name for New York City.<ref>Burrows, Edwin G. and Mike Wallace. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. (Oxford University Press, 1999), 417.</ref>
+Along with Irving, Paulding was associated with the "[[Knickerbocker Group]]", a group which also included [[William Cullen Bryant]], [[Gulian Crommelin Verplanck]], [[Fitz-Greene Halleck]], [[Joseph Rodman Drake]], [[Robert Charles Sands]], [[Lydia Maria Child]], and [[Nathaniel Parker Willis]].<ref>Nelson, Randy F. ''The Almanac of American Letters''. Los Altos, California: William Kaufmann, Inc., 1981: 30. {{ISBN|0-86576-008-X}}</ref>
+Paulding's other writings also include ''[[The Diverting History of John Bull and Brother Jonathan]]'' (1812), a satire, ''[[The Dutchman's Fireside]]'' (1831), a romance which attained popularity, ''A'' ''Life of Washington'' (1835), and some poems. Extracts from his epic poem ''The Backwoodsman'' (1818) were popularly reprinted throughout his life.<ref>John Hay, ''Postapocalyptic Fantasies in Antebellum American Literature'' (Cambridge University Press, 2017), 62. {{ISBN|9781108418249}}</ref> In the decade before Washington Irving and [[James Fenimore Cooper]] achieved popular success, Paulding experimented in every genre in an effort to forge a new American literature. Thereafter, his outstanding contributions were in the novel and in a stage comedy. ''Koningsmarke'' (1823), which he began as a spoof of [[Walter Scott]]'s historical romances, took unexpected hold of his imagination and became a well-turned novel, notable for its portrait of an old black woman that anticipates [[William Faulkner]] and for its sympathetic yet unromanticized depiction of the Indian. ''The Lion of the West'' (1831), selected in a play competition in which William Cullen Bryant was one of the judges, presented a cartoon of [[Davy Crockett]]; it was the most-often performed play on the American stage before ''[[Uncle Tom's Cabin]]'', and an altered version enjoyed success in London. Paulding's ''View of Slavery in the United States'' (1836) was a comprehensive defense of both Black slavery and America's claim to be a bastion of liberty against the attacks of abolitionists and European critics.
+Among Paulding's government positions were those of secretary to the [[Board of Navy Commissioners]] in 1815–23 and Naval Agent in New York in 1824–38. President [[Martin Van Buren]] appointed him Secretary of the Navy in June 1838. As Secretary, he was a conservative figure, whose extensive knowledge of naval affairs was balanced by notable lack of enthusiasm for new technology. He opposed the introduction of steam-propelled warships declaring that he would "never consent to let our old ships perish, and transform our Navy into a fleet of (steam) sea monsters." Nevertheless, his tenure was marked by advances in steam engineering, wide-ranging exploration efforts, enlargement of the fleet and an expansion of the Navy's apprenticeship program.
+In 1839, Paulding was elected as a member to the [[American Philosophical Society]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=1839&year-max=1839&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=2021-04-09|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref>
+Paulding left office with the change of administrations in March 1841, returned to literary pursuits and took up agriculture. He died at his farm near [[Hyde Park, New York]]. He is interred at [[Green-Wood Cemetery]] in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York (state)|New York]].
+[[USS James K. Paulding (DD-238)|USS ''James K. Paulding'' (DD-238)]] was named in honor of Secretary of the Navy Paulding.
+== Personal life ==
+Paulding married Gertrude Kemble (d. 1841) on 15 November 1818.<ref name=":0" /> Gertrude was the daughter of New York merchant Peter Kemble and the sister of U.S. congressman [[Gouverneur Kemble]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Paulding |first=William I. |url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/afw5875.0001.001 |title=Literary life of James K. Paulding / compiled by his son. |publisher=Charles Scribner |year=1867 |location=New York |pages=116}}</ref> They had four sons:
+* Peter Kemble Paulding (1819–1900)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sims family papers, 1775-1931 |url=https://researchworks.oclc.org/archivegrid/collection/data/950472273 |access-date=2022-10-18 |website=researchworks.oclc.org |language=en}}</ref>
+* William Irving Paulding (1825–1890)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Century Archives – The Century Association Archives Foundation |url=https://www.centuryarchives.org/caba/bio.php?PersonID=2251 |access-date=2022-10-18 |website=www.centuryarchives.org}}</ref>
+* Gouverneur Paulding (1829–1913)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Norris |first=Elizabeth N. |url=https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1143&context=open_access_dissertations |title=Cold Spring, Hot Foundry: An Archaeological Exploration of the West Point Foundry's Paternal Influence Upon the Village of Cold Spring and its Residents |year=2009 |pages=107}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Forlow |first=Trudie A. Grace and Mark |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NAdZAgAAQBAJ&dq=%22Gouverneur+paulding%22+1829&pg=PA89 |title=West Point Foundry |date=2014 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=978-1-4671-2064-7 |pages=89 |language=en}}</ref>
+* James Nathaniel Paulding (1833–1898)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Century Archives – The Century Association Archives Foundation |url=https://www.centuryarchives.org/caba/bio.php?PersonID=2250 |access-date=2022-10-18 |website=www.centuryarchives.org}}</ref>
+== Oft-quoted phrase ==
+Paulding's story, "The Politician" contains a maxim that is often attributed to Samuel Gompers: "Reward your friends and punish your enemies." The story appears in his collection, ''Tales of the Good Woman, by a Doubtful Gentleman.''  The same basic idea (a definition of justice as doing good to friends and harm to enemies), appears in Plato's dialogue, the [[The Republic (Plato)|''Republic'']], where it is subsequently rejected as inadequate.
+== Important works ==
+* 1807–1808 – ''[[Salmagundi (periodical)|Salmagundi]]'' (with [[Washington Irving]])
+* 1812 – [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000366232 ''The Diverting History of John Bull and Brother Jonathan'']
+* 1813 – [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001423887 ''The Lay of the Scottish Fiddle'']
+* 1818 – [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001027720 ''The Backwoodsman'']
+* 1820 – ''Salmagundi. Second Series''
+* 1822 – [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007670004 ''A Sketch of Old England by a New England Man'']<ref>{{cite journal|title=Review of ''A Sketch of Old England ...''|journal=The Quarterly Review|date=January 1824|volume=30|pages=519–542|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044014221196;view=1up;seq=529}}</ref>
+* 1823 – [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001027722 ''Koningsmarke, the Long Finne'']
+* 1825 – [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008660788 ''John Bull in America, or the New Munchausen'']
+* 1826 – [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001027725 ''The Merry Tales of the Three Wise Men of Gotham'']
+* 1828 – [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001027726 ''The New Mirror for Travellers'']
+* 1829 – [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001020788 ''Tales of the Good Woman, by a Doubtful Gentleman'']
+* 1830 – [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007669304 ''Chronicles of the City of Gotham'']
+* 1831 – [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000247033 ''The Dutchman's Fireside'']
+* 1832 – ''Westward Ho!''
+* 1835 – [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000406500 ''Life of George Washington''], in two volumes
+* 1836 – ''View of Slavery in the United States''
+* 1836 – [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006154898 ''The Book of St. Nicholas'']
+* 1838 – [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008622514 ''A Gift from Fairy Land'']
+* 1846 – ''The Old Continental, or the Price of Liberty''
+* 1849 – ''The Puritan and his Daughter''
+==Legacy and honors==
+*The [[World War II]] [[Liberty Ship]] {{SS|James K. Paulding}} was named in his honor.
+==References==
+{{reflist}}
+==Further reading==
+* Aderman, Ralph M., and Wayne R. Kime. ''Advocate for America: The Life of James Kirke Paulding'' (Susquehanna University Press, 2003).
+* Aderman, Ralph M. "James Kirke Paulding on Literature and the West." ''American Literature'' (1955) 27#1: 97–101. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2922315 online]
+* Person Jr, Leland S. "James Kirke Paulding: Myth and the Middle Ground." ''Western American Literature'' 16.1 (1981): 39–54. [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/529533/pdf online]
+* Watkins, Floyd C. "James Kirke Paulding and the South." ''American Quarterly'' 5.3 (1953): 219–230. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3031352 online]
+{{wikisource-author}}
+*{{A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature}}
+*{{NHC}}
+*{{DANFS}}
+==External links==
+* [https://archive.org/details/TheKnickerbockersRescueSantaClausJamesKirkePaulding "The Knickerbocker's Rescue Santa Claus" – an excerpt from Kirke Paulding's "The Book of Saint Nicholas" (1836)]
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+  before= [[Mahlon Dickerson]] |
+  title= [[United States Secretary of the Navy]] |
+  years= 1838–1841 |
+  after= [[George Edmund Badger|George E. Badger]]}}
+{{s-end}}
+{{USSecNavy}}
+{{Van Buren cabinet}}
+{{Authority control}}
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+[[Category:1860 deaths]]
+[[Category:Novelists from New York (state)]]
+[[Category:United States Secretaries of the Navy]]
+[[Category:Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery]]
+[[Category:Van Buren administration cabinet members]]
+[[Category:19th-century American politicians]]
+[[Category:People from Hyde Park, New York]]
+[[Category:American male novelists]]
+[[Category:American male poets]]
+[[Category:19th-century American novelists]]
+[[Category:19th-century American dramatists and playwrights]]
+[[Category:19th-century American poets]]
+[[Category:New York (state) Democratic-Republicans]]
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Secretary of War	Joel Roberts Poinsett (1837–1841)
Attorney General	Benjamin Franklin Butler (1837–1838) Felix Grundy (1838–1840) Henry D. Gilpin (1840–1841)
Postmaster General	Amos Kendall (1837–1840) John Milton Niles (1840–1841)
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