American journalist, brother of President Timothy Dwight; born in Northampton, MA, on the 15th of December 1764. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and as a Federalist engaged in many of the political controversies. After serving in the state senate he was elected to Congress in 1806. He edited the Hartford Mirror during the War of 1812, and was secretary of the Hartford convention in 1814. In 1815 he became editor of the Albany Daily Advertiser, and in 1817 he removed to New York, where he founded the Daily Advertiser, which he edited until 1836. Mr. Dwight published A History of the Hartford Convention (1833) and the Character of Thomas Jefferson as Exhibited in His Own Writings (1839). He died in New York City on the 12th of July 1846. See also “African Distress,” etc.
