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scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Livingston_(1746%E2%80%931813)" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Livingston (1746–1813)">Robert R. Livingston</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/James_Kent_(jurist)" title="James Kent (jurist)">James Kent</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Mayor_of_Albany,_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="Mayor of Albany, New York">Mayor of Albany, New York</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1786–1790</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Johannes_Jacobse_Beekman" title="Johannes Jacobse Beekman">Johannes Jacobse Beekman</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Abraham_Yates_Jr." title="Abraham Yates Jr.">Abraham Yates Jr.</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">John Ten Eyck Lansing Jr.</div><br />January 30, 1754<br /><a href="/wiki/Albany,_New_York" title="Albany, New York">Albany, New York</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">December 12, 1829 (<a href="/wiki/Missing_person" title="Missing person">disappeared</a>) (aged 75)<br />New York City, New York, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Cornelia Ray<br /></div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1781; his disappearance 1829)<wbr /></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parent(s)</th><td class="infobox-data">Gerrit Jacob Lansing<br />Jannetje Waters</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relatives</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Abraham_G._Lansing" title="Abraham G. Lansing">Abraham Lansing</a> (brother)<br /><a href="/wiki/Gerrit_Y._Lansing" title="Gerrit Y. Lansing">Gerrit Lansing</a> (nephew)<br /><a href="/wiki/Robert_Lansing_(state_senator)" title="Robert Lansing (state senator)">Robert Lansing</a> (nephew)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>John Ten Eyck Lansing Jr.</b> (January 30, 1754 – vanished December 12, 1829), a <a href="/wiki/Founding_Father_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Founding Father of the United States">Founding Father of the United States</a>, was an <a href="/wiki/Attorney_at_law" title="Attorney at law">attorney</a>, <a href="/wiki/Judge" title="Judge">jurist</a>, and politician.<sup id="cite_ref-nycourts_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nycourts-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-JLJrbioguide_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JLJrbioguide-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Born and raised in <a href="/wiki/Albany,_New_York" title="Albany, New York">Albany, New York</a>, Lansing was trained as a lawyer, and was long involved in politics and government. During the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a> he was military secretary to General <a href="/wiki/Philip_Schuyler" title="Philip Schuyler">Philip Schuyler</a>. Lansing served in the <a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Assembly" title="New York State Assembly">New York State Assembly</a> from 1781 to 1784, in 1786, and in 1789; served as <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_New_York_State_Assembly" class="mw-redirect" title="Speaker of the New York State Assembly">Speaker</a> of the Assembly in 1786 and 1789; served as a member of the <a href="/wiki/Congress_of_the_Confederation" title="Congress of the Confederation">Congress of the Confederation</a> in 1785; and served as mayor of Albany from 1786 to 1790. He was a delegate to the federal <a href="/wiki/Constitutional_Convention_(United_States)" title="Constitutional Convention (United States)">Constitutional Convention</a> in 1787, but withdrew from the body in July because he opposed the proposed <a href="/wiki/United_States_Constitution" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Constitution">United States Constitution</a> as infringing on state and individual rights. He was a delegate to the New York ratification convention in June 1788, but was unable to prevent the Constitution from being approved. </p><p>In 1790, Lansing was a member of the commission that settled the New York-<a href="/wiki/Vermont" title="Vermont">Vermont</a> boundary as part of Vermont's admission to the Union as the fourteenth state in 1791. He was a justice of the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Supreme_Court" title="New York Supreme Court">New York Supreme Court</a> from 1790 to 1798, and chief justice from 1798 to 1801. He was also <a href="/wiki/New_York_Court_of_Chancery" title="New York Court of Chancery">Chancellor of New York</a> from 1801 to 1814, and in 1817 was a special commissioner to resolve New York City and <a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">New York County</a> claims to land in Vermont. From 1817 until his death, he was regent of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_the_State_of_New_York" title="University of the State of New York">University of the State of New York</a>. Lansing disappeared in December 1829, after leaving his New York City hotel room to mail a letter. No trace was ever found, and what happened to Lansing remains unknown. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Lansing_Jr.&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>John Ten Eyck Lansing Jr. was born on January 30, 1754, in <a href="/wiki/Albany,_New_York" title="Albany, New York">Albany, New York</a>. He was the son of Gerrit Jacob Lansing (b. 1711) and Jannetje "Jane" (née Waters) Lansing (1728–1810).<sup id="cite_ref-Munsell1916_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Munsell1916-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His younger brother was <a href="/wiki/Abraham_G._Lansing" title="Abraham G. Lansing">Abraham Gerritse Lansing</a> (1756–1834), <a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Treasurer" title="New York State Treasurer">New York State Treasurer</a> who married Susanna Yates, the daughter of <a href="/wiki/Abraham_Yates" class="mw-redirect" title="Abraham Yates">Abraham Yates</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Munsell1916_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Munsell1916-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another brother, Sanders G. Lansing (1766–1850), married Catherine Ten Eyck (1769–1850), daughter of <a href="/wiki/Ten_Eyck_family" title="Ten Eyck family">Abraham Ten Eyck</a> (1744–1824) and Annatje (née Lansing) Ten Eyck (1746–1823).<sup id="cite_ref-BielinskiGYL_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BielinskiGYL-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Through his brother Abraham, Lansing was the uncle of <a href="/wiki/Gerrit_Y._Lansing" title="Gerrit Y. Lansing">Gerrit Yates Lansing</a> (1783–1862), a member of the <a href="/wiki/U.S._House_of_Representatives" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. House of Representatives">U.S. House of Representatives</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Munsell1916_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Munsell1916-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Susan Yates Lansing (1804–1874), who was the second wife of <a href="/wiki/Peter_Gansevoort_(state_senator)" class="mw-redirect" title="Peter Gansevoort (state senator)">Peter Gansevoort</a> (1788–1876), son of Gen. <a href="/wiki/Peter_Gansevoort" title="Peter Gansevoort">Peter Gansevoort</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-NYTObit1876_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTObit1876-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Through his brother Sanders, he was the uncle of <a href="/wiki/Robert_Lansing_(state_senator)" title="Robert Lansing (state senator)">Robert Lansing</a> (1799–1878), a <a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Senate" title="New York State Senate">New York State Senator</a> and the grandfather of U.S. Secretary of State <a href="/wiki/Robert_Lansing" title="Robert Lansing">Robert Lansing</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Munsell1916_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Munsell1916-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Lansing_Jr.&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Lansing studied law with <a href="/wiki/Robert_Yates_(politician)" title="Robert Yates (politician)">Robert Yates</a> in Albany, and was admitted to practice in 1775.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From 1776 until 1777 during the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">Revolutionary War</a>, Lansing served as a military secretary to General <a href="/wiki/Philip_Schuyler" title="Philip Schuyler">Philip Schuyler</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-archives_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-archives-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Afterwards he was a member of the <a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Assembly" title="New York State Assembly">New York State Assembly</a> from 1780 to 1784, in 1785–86, and 1788–89, being its <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_New_York_State_Assembly" class="mw-redirect" title="Speaker of the New York State Assembly">Speaker</a> during the latter two terms. He served New York as a member of the <a href="/wiki/Confederation_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="Confederation Congress">Confederation Congress</a> in 1785.<sup id="cite_ref-Talcott2001_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Talcott2001-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-encyclopedia_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-encyclopedia-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1786, Lansing was appointed <a href="/wiki/Mayor_of_Albany" class="mw-redirect" title="Mayor of Albany">Mayor of Albany</a>. He represented New York as one of three representatives at the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Convention" class="mw-redirect" title="Philadelphia Convention">Constitutional Convention</a> in 1787, where he intended to follow the wishes of the <a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Legislature" title="New York State Legislature">New York Legislature</a> and only amend the existing <a href="/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation" title="Articles of Confederation">Articles of Confederation</a>. However, as the convention progressed he became dismayed that the convention was, in his view, exceeding of its mandate by writing an entirely new constitution. Lansing's desire was to see the Articles strengthened by giving it a source of revenue, the power to regulate commerce, and to enforce treaties. He joined other prominent <a href="/wiki/Anti-Federalists" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-Federalists">Anti-Federalists</a> that strongly opposed <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Hamilton" title="Alexander Hamilton">Alexander Hamilton</a>, <a href="/wiki/James_Wilson_(Founding_Father)" title="James Wilson (Founding Father)">James Wilson</a>, and <a href="/wiki/James_Madison" title="James Madison">James Madison</a>'s notions of a strong centralized national government to replace the Articles.<sup id="cite_ref-archives_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-archives-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lansing, along with fellow New York delegate Yates, as well as <a href="/wiki/Luther_Martin" title="Luther Martin">Luther Martin</a> of <a href="/wiki/Maryland" title="Maryland">Maryland</a> and <a href="/wiki/George_Mason" title="George Mason">George Mason</a> of <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a>, strongly opposed the newly proposed <a href="/wiki/United_States_Constitution" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Constitution">United States Constitution</a> because they thought it was fundamentally flawed and it infringed on the sovereignty of the independent States while not doing enough to guarantee individual liberty.<sup id="cite_ref-Talcott2001_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Talcott2001-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Both Lansing and Yates walked out of the convention after six weeks and explained their departure in a joint letter to <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_New_York" title="Governor of New York">New York Governor</a> <a href="/wiki/George_Clinton_(vice_president)" title="George Clinton (vice president)">George Clinton</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-archives_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-archives-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Neither man signed the constitution. At the New York Ratifying Convention that followed, Lansing, along with <a href="/wiki/Melancton_Smith" title="Melancton Smith">Melancton Smith</a>, took the lead in the debates as the leaders of the Anti-Federalist majority. Their attempts to prevent ratification ultimately failed by a narrow vote of 30 to 27. </p><p>Lansing was appointed a justice of the <a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="New York State Supreme Court">New York State Supreme Court</a> in 1790, and on February 15, 1798, he was elevated to the post of chief justice.<sup id="cite_ref-Talcott2001_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Talcott2001-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1801, he also became the second <a href="/wiki/New_York_Court_of_Chancery" title="New York Court of Chancery">Chancellor of New York</a>, succeeding <a href="/wiki/Robert_Livingston_(1746%E2%80%931813)" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Livingston (1746–1813)">Robert R. Livingston</a>. In 1814 Lansing became a Regent of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_the_State_of_New_York" title="University of the State of New York">University of the State of New York</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-JLJrBielinski_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JLJrBielinski-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Disappearance">Disappearance</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Lansing_Jr.&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Disappearance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On the evening of December 12, 1829, Lansing left his <a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a> hotel to mail a letter at a dock in New York City, never to be seen again.<sup id="cite_ref-archives_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-archives-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was 75 years old and was presumed drowned or perhaps murdered. Lansing's fate was a major mystery in New York State at the time, rivaled only by the 1826 disappearance of <a href="/wiki/William_Morgan_(anti-Mason)" title="William Morgan (anti-Mason)">William Morgan</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Anti-Masonry" title="Anti-Masonry">anti-Masonic</a> writer. </p><p>Only one major clue to Lansing's disappearance appeared after his death. In 1882, the memoirs of <a href="/wiki/Thurlow_Weed" title="Thurlow Weed">Thurlow Weed</a>, former <a href="/wiki/Whig_Party_(United_States)" title="Whig Party (United States)">Whig</a> and <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> political leader in New York State, were published by Weed's grandson T. W. Barnes. Weed wrote that Lansing was murdered by several prominent political and social figures who found he was in the way of their projects.<sup id="cite_ref-nycourts_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nycourts-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Weed, his unnamed source showed him papers to prove it, but begged Weed not to publish them until all the individuals had died. Weed said they were all dead by 1870, but he did not wish to harm their respected family reputations, so upon advice of two friends he decided not to reveal what he had been told. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Lansing_Jr.&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On April 8, 1781, Lansing was married to Cornelia Ray (1757–1834), daughter of Robert Ray and Sarah (née Bogart) Ray of New York City.<sup id="cite_ref-archives_7-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-archives-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Sullivan1911_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sullivan1911-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Together, they were the parents of ten children, five of whom died young. Their children included:<sup id="cite_ref-archives_7-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-archives-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>Jane Lansing (1785–1871), who married <a href="/wiki/Rensselaer_Westerlo" title="Rensselaer Westerlo">Rensselaer Westerlo</a> (1776–1851) in 1805. He was the son of <a href="/wiki/Eilardus_Westerlo" title="Eilardus Westerlo">Eilardus Westerlo</a> and Catherine Livingston, herself the daughter of <a href="/wiki/Philip_Livingston" title="Philip Livingston">Philip Livingston</a> and the widow of <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Van_Rensselaer_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Stephen Van Rensselaer II">Stephen Van Rensselaer II</a>.</li> <li>Frances Lansing (1791–1855), who married <a href="/wiki/Lansing_Manor_House" title="Lansing Manor House">Jacob Livingston Sutherland</a> (1788–1845) in 1811.<sup id="cite_ref-StNick1905_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-StNick1905-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Cornelia Lansing (1795–1877)</li> <li>Sarah Ray Lansing (1797–1848), who married <a href="/wiki/Edward_Livingston_(speaker)" title="Edward Livingston (speaker)">Edward Livingston</a> (1796–1840) in 1819.<sup id="cite_ref-Talcott2001_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Talcott2001-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1787Notes_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1787Notes-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>Lansing's widow died in January 1834 and is buried at <a href="/wiki/Albany_Rural_Cemetery" title="Albany Rural Cemetery">Albany Rural Cemetery</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Talcott2001_8-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Talcott2001-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Legacy">Legacy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Lansing_Jr.&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The town of <a href="/wiki/Lansing,_New_York" title="Lansing, New York">Lansing</a> in New York was named after John Lansing. <a href="/wiki/Lansing,_Michigan" title="Lansing, Michigan">Lansing, Michigan</a>, was named by settlers who came from Lansing, New York.<sup id="cite_ref-newnetherlandinstitute_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-newnetherlandinstitute-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Lansing_Jr.&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_mayors_of_Albany,_New_York" title="List of mayors of Albany, New York">List of mayors of Albany, New York</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_people_who_disappeared_mysteriously:_pre-1910" title="List of people who disappeared mysteriously: 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href="http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000087">"John Lansing Jr. (id: L000087)"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Biographical_Directory_of_the_United_States_Congress" title="Biographical Directory of the United States Congress">Biographical Directory of the United States Congress</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Biographical+Directory+of+the+United+States+Congress&rft.atitle=John+Lansing+Jr.+%28id%3A+L000087%29&rft.au=United+States+Congress&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fbioguide.congress.gov%2Fscripts%2Fbiodisplay.pl%3Findex%3DL000087&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Lansing+Jr." class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iment.com/maida/familytree/lansing/chancellorjohnlansing.htm">Several Bios</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iment.com/maida/familytree/lansing/lansing.htm">Lansing Family Tree</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/constitution_founding_fathers_new_york.html">Bio at the NARA</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/bios/l/jolansing3755.html">John Lansing Jr. biography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Pearson" title="Edmund Pearson">Edmund Pearson</a> <i>Instigation of the Devil</i> (New York, London: <a href="/wiki/Charles_Scribner%27s_Sons" title="Charles Scribner's Sons">Charles Scribner's Sons</a>, 1930), Chapter XXIII: <i>A Rather Mysterious Chancellor</i>, p. 277–287, 355.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pauline_Maier" title="Pauline Maier">Pauline Maier</a>, <i>Ratification, The People Debate the Constitution 1787–1788</i>, (New York, London, Toronto, Sydney:<a href="/wiki/Simon_%26_Schuster" title="Simon & Schuster">Simon & Schuster</a>, 2010) p. 35, 47, 90–93, 325–326, 367, 375, 396, 398.</li></ul> <table 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