Please answer the following question: Stephen van Rensselaer III (November 1 1764 January 26 1839) was Lieutenant Governor of New York as well as a statesman soldier and land-owner the heir to one of the largest estates in the New York region at the time which made him the tenth richest American of all time based on the ratio of his fortune to contemporary GDP. This figure was put at $68 billion which also makes him the twenty-second richest person in history. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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Office Holder