# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/daniel-d-tompkins
# Generated: 2026-09-01T19:06:13.256Z

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name: "Daniel D. Tompkins"
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description: "He bankrolled a war with his own fortune, watched the bills pile up while serving two full terms as vice president, then drank himself to death three months after leaving office — broke, burned out, and fifty years old."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Scarsdale in 1774, Tompkins practiced law in New York City after Columbia, sat on the state's highest court, then beat the incumbent to become governor in 1807. He held the office through the entire War of 1812, often reaching into his own pocket to equip and pay militia when the legislature wouldn't. That generosity wrecked him: by war's end his finances were in tatters. He rode the Democratic-Republican ticket with James Monroe to the vice presidency in 1816 and served two full terms — the only nineteenth-century VP to do so — but the debt and the strain never lifted. He tried for governor again in 1820 and lost to DeWitt Clinton. Alcoholism took hold. The federal government gave him partial reimbursement in 1823, but it was too late. He died on June 11, 1825, ninety-nine days after leaving office.