About George Dayton
Lived 1827 – 1938 (aged 110–111). George Dayton was an American politician.
George Dayton (October 2, 1827 – November 1902) was a New Jersey merchant and politician.
Dayton lived in Union Township in what is now Rutherford, New Jersey, where he was a successful hardware merchant. He was elected as a Democrat to represent Bergen County in the New Jersey Senate for one term from 1875 to 1877.
Dayton died in 1902, at the age of 75, after an illness of several months. He was buried in Brookside Cemetery in Englewood, New Jersey, on November 20, 1902.
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New Jersey State Senator
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George Dayton was born in 1827 in Troy.
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George Dayton died in 1938.
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