iMayor James Duane of New York who sat as magistrate in the Mayor's
Court during the trial of Rutgers v. Waddington in 1784, one of the
most famous cases to come before that court.

Duane was a governor of King's College from 1762-1781, one of the
ex officio regents of tiie new University of the State of Ne^v York from
1784-1787, a Trustee of Columbia College from 1787-1797, and Chair¬
man of the Board of Trustees from 1787-1795.

The original portrait, which now hangs in the lounge of Hartlc\- Hall
at Columbia, is a cop\' bv James Francis Brown of a portrait painted bv
John Trumbull in 1805.