Talk:George Clinton (vice president)

message: Entries under 'Cato' (anti-federalist author) point to George Clinton as 'widely believed' to be the author of those papers. Meanwhile, I find reference on the web to Rev. William Smith, prominant Tory Philadelphian as the author of the letters signed 'Cato' to which Thomas Paine responded under the pen name, 'Forrester' in his defense of 'Common Sense.' I know of no evidence for either of these attributions. Could someone provide a few words of clarification? Perhaps another entry on the 'Cato' disambiguation page?
:*Herbert Storing is the main scholar who points to Clinton as Cato; others, including Albert Furtwangler and Linda De Pauw have disputed that attribution. I've noted the attribution of the Clinton-Cato connection in the article. I don't know of the William Smith claim, but I will look into it when I write the articles for the anti-federalists. Christopher Parham (talk) 07:24, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who is 'Cato' 

message: New York numbers its Governors via 'individual', not via 'office tenure'. Clinton was 'never' the 3rd Governor of New York. GoodDay (talk) 16:33, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  3rd Governor?? 

message: This page was moved to 'Vice President George Clinton' and I then moved it back. If anyone thinks it should be named differently, then let's discuss it here please. --AndrewHowse (talk) 03:47, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page name 

message: So is this guy a forefather to the present Clintons (Bill) or not?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mkruijff (talk • contribs) 09:37, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I second the request. Is Bill Clinton related to George Clinton? 72.67.35.97 (talk)
No blood relation.  Bill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III (www.wikipedia.org/bill_clinton)
As if he were related to WJB3's (aka Bill Clinton's) stepfather, that is an open question.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.105.72.67 (talk) 21:19, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Forefather of? 

message: Did any other VP serve under 2 Presidents?
: John C. Calhoun Jjmillerhistorian (talk) 17:41, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Any other VP serve under 2 Presidents? 

message: In the last paragraph of the section titled "Governor", there is a sentence which reads:
"However, New York did not then go to was to overthrow the government of Vermont."
I can only guess to the author's meaning of this sentence, as I tried to find information anywhere else regarding whether or not New York tried to overthrow the government of Vermont in 1784, a time when their representatives to congress were angrily calling for Vermont to made part of New York and threatening military force (according to this article, but I can't find any detail about that threat during that time, and it's not cited, so I have no original source to clear up the meaning of the sentence, either). So I don't want to edit it to be more legible because I just don't know what happened. 
Clearly though, it makes no sense and one cannot tell what it truly means, though it leans toward the fact that George Clinton, acting as Governor, did not then go to using military force to try and overthrow Vermont's government and if he did he failed. I'd love it if someone knows the history on this or can find it somewhere so we can clean this up. I know it's not terribly important to the article, but having a sentence like that on a page irks me as I'm sure it does many of you. Just want us to look good, of course, and be accurate. 
Thanks for anyone who can help with this! Heimdallen (talk) 09:52, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sentence near end of Governor section makes no sense 

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message: , I noticed you changed 
:"fourth Vice President of the United States" (fourth Vice President of the United States) into
:"fourth Vice President of the United States" (fourth Vice President of the United States).
I believe I've seen this pattern of linking the ordinal number to the list relatively frequently in lists and article ledes, and I find it a nice pattern. I'd prefer to have both links, though not enough to overcome my aversion to a MOS:SEAOFBLUE. But I'm inclined to think that the list is slightly more specific (see MOS:SPECIFICLINK).  Anyway, I'd appreciate your thoughts about linking ordinals to lists in general. I don't feel strongly about this, mostly interested in having someone else's point of view inform my own ideas.  Thoughts?? YBG (talk) 15:49, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I made the change because it had already been done on a few of the intros to US Presidents & Vice Presidents bios. Am trying for consistency. I believe  &  would be interested in this discussion. GoodDay (talk) 15:51, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Consistency is a very persuasive argument for me. Any idea which form was more frequent before these recent changes? The consistency argument does not determine which is preferable, and certainly does not trump any WP:MOS arguments or consensus. But consistency by itself would look to the status quo before these changes. If the majority linked the ordinal to the list, these changes should be reverted. But if the majority linked the office to the main article, then these changes should be propagated to all articles. YBG (talk) 17:56, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: For years, they linked to the main office. Last year, somebody complained that we already had office links in the infobox & so they came up with the 'link to List' idea for the article intros. GoodDay (talk) 20:27, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fourth VP link 

message: No mention of slave-owning. I feel that this category should be restricted to people whose slave-owning history was notable in itself. Valetude (talk) 12:51, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category:American slave owners