James Kirke Paulding - Wikipedia James Kirke Paulding From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search James 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 James Kirke Paulding (1778-08-22)August 22, 1778 Pleasant Valley, New York, U.S. Died April 6, 1860(1860-04-06) (aged 81) Hyde Park, New York, U.S. Political party Democratic-Republican (Before 1825) Democratic (1825–1860) Spouse(s) Gertrude Kemble 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. Contents 1 Biography 2 Oft-quoted phrase 3 Important works 4 Legacy and honors 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External links Biography[edit] James Kirke Paulding was born on August 22, 1778,[1] at Pleasant Valley, New York. 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."[2] The result was Salmagundi; a short-lived satirical periodical, from which the word 'Gotham' was first ascribed as a name for New York City.[3] 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.[4] 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. 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. 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. Oft-quoted phrase[edit] 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[edit] 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[5] 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[edit] The World War II Liberty Ship SS James K. Paulding was named in his honor. References[edit] ^ Nelson, Randy F. The Almanac of American Letters. Los Altos, California: William Kaufmann, Inc., 1981: 45. ISBN 0-86576-008-X ^ 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 ^ "Review of A Sketch of Old England ...". The Quarterly Review. 30: 519–542. January 1824. Further reading[edit] 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. online Person Jr, Leland S. "James Kirke Paulding: Myth and the Middle Ground." Western American Literature 16.1 (1981): 39-54. online Watkins, Floyd C. "James Kirke Paulding and the South." American Quarterly 5.3 (1953): 219-230. online Wikisource has original works written by or about: James Kirke Paulding  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain:  Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons – via Wikisource.  This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Naval History and Heritage Command. This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. External links[edit] "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 v t e United States Secretaries of the Navy Secretaries Cabinet-level Stoddert Smith Hamilton Jones Crowninshield S Thompson Southard Branch L. 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