 Jonathan D. Stevenson

Jonathan Drake Stevenson (1800–1894) was born in New York; won a seat in the New York State Assembly ; was the commanding officer of the First Regiment of New York Volunteers during the Mexican–American War in California; entered California mining and real estate businesses; and died in San Francisco on February 14, 1894.Stevenson became the protégé of New York Governor Daniel D. Tompkins and served as his private secretary, and accompanied him to Washington in that capacity when Tompkins was elected Vice President in 1816.