Claim: William Denning has a longer term than fellow democrats John Schenck  and DeWitt Clinton.
Evidence: He served in the New York State Assembly from 1784 to 1787 and in the New York State Senate from 1798 to 1808. Clinton was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1798, and of the New York State Senate from the Southern District in 1798–1802 and 1806–1811 He was a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention in 1801. John Schenck (sometimes written Schanck) (1750–1823) was a captain in the New Jersey Militia during the American Revolutionary War.