Editing DeWitt Clinton (section)

==Legacy==
{{Further|List of places named for DeWitt Clinton}}
[[File:US-$1000-LT-1880-Fr-187k.jpg|upright=1.4|right|thumb|$1,000 Legal Tender note, Series 1880, Fr.187k, depicting DeWitt Clinton]]

Clinton's accomplishments as a leader in civic and state affairs included improving the New York public school system, encouraging steam navigation, and modifying the laws governing criminals and debtors. The 1831 [[DeWitt Clinton (locomotive)|''DeWitt Clinton'' locomotive]] was named in his honor. The community of [[Whitestone, Queens|Whitestone]], New York was for several decades after his death known as Clintonville, but reverted to its traditional name; however, the governor is memorialized by Clintonville Street, a major local road.

*An engraved portrait of Clinton appeared on the Legal Tender (United States Note) issue of 1880 in the $1,000.00 denomination. An illustrated example is [http://www.frbsf.org/currency/industrial/legal/562.html on the website] of [[Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco]]'s "American Currency Exhibit".
*[[Iowa]] has one county named for the New York governor whose canal greatly stimulated national growth: [[Clinton County, Iowa|Clinton County]] (founded 1837). The [[county seat]] of Clinton is the City of Clinton.<ref>https://www.ilsos.gov/departments/archives/IRAD/dewitt.html#:~:text=Named%20for%20DeWitt%20Clinton%2C%20a,promoter%20of%20the%20Erie%20Canal.</ref>
*In 1926 the DeWitt Clinton Professorship of American History was established at Columbia University; the first to hold the chair was [[Evarts Boutell Greene]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wikicu.com/DeWitt_Clinton_Professor_of_American_History|title=DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History - WikiCU, the Columbia University wiki encyclopedia|website=www.wikicu.com|access-date=July 25, 2018}}</ref>
* DeWitt Clinton became a focus of public attention related to the Erie Canal's bicentennial, which began in 2017 (the 200th anniversary of the original canal's groundbreaking) and will continue through 2025 (the 200th anniversary of the canal's opening). In a New York City event on July 4, 2017, actor Kyle Jenks read Clinton's 1815 canal manifesto on the steps of Federal Hall in lower Manhattan. In December 2017, the Museum of the City of New York completed a renovation of a statue of Clinton, along with one of Alexander Hamilton, located on the museum's exterior. Also that year, a book featuring descendants of DeWitt Clinton exploring ruins of the original canal, titled [https://www.amazon.com/DeWitts-Footsteps-Seeing-History-Canal/dp/0692902791/ref=sr_1_1/131-4991738-1181168?ie=UTF8&qid=1516119442&sr=8-1&keywords=in+dewitt%27s+footsteps ''In DeWitt's Footsteps''], was published by journalist Kenneth Silber.
* March 2, 2019 was the 250th anniversary, or semiquincentennial, of DeWitt Clinton's birth. The [https://www.splicetoday.com/writing/dewitt-clinton-s-sense-of-time milestone was marked by events] at the Erie Canal Museum in Syracuse and the Buffalo Maritime Center.
* Following his New York Governorship, ''DeWitt'' became a popular given name - see [[DeWitt (name)]].
* The City of [[DeWitt, Michigan]] is named for Clinton. {{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}
* Both the town and township of [[Clinton, New Jersey]] are named after him.
* The township of [[Clinton, Indiana]] is named after him.
* The city of [[Clinton, Louisiana]] in [[East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana]] founded in 1824 is named after him. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=3310|title=Profile for Clinton, Louisiana|publisher=[[ePodunk]]|access-date=April 26, 2010}}</ref>
* ''[[Clintonia]]'', a genus of flowering plants described by [[Constantine Samuel Rafinesque|Rafinesque]] in 1818,<ref name="Rafinesque 1818">{{cite journal |last1=Rafinesque |first1=Constantine Samuel |author-link1=Constantine Samuel Rafinesque |title=Flora Americae Septentrionalis, or a systematic arrangement and description of the plants of North America by Frederick Pursh |journal=Amer. Monthly Mag. & Crit. Rev. |date=1818 |volume=2 |issue=3 |pages=170–176}}</ref> was named in honor of DeWitt Clinton.<ref name="Quattrocchi 2012">{{cite book |last=Quattrocchi |first=Umberto |title=CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants: Common names, Scientific names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology |url={{Google books|YC_lAgAAQBAJ|page=PA1023|plainurl=yes}} |date=3 May 2012 |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=978-1-4200-8044-5 |page=1023}}</ref>

His portrait appears on many tobacco tax stamps of the late 1800s to early 1900s.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=531IAQAAIAAJ&q=DeWitt+Clinton+tobacco+stamp&pg=PA14 | title=What You Should Know about the Alcohol & Tobacco Tax Division}}</ref>