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Biography

George Brinton McClellan was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 3 December 1826. He graduated second in his class from West Point, the United States Military Academy, in 1846. He and his wife, Mary Ellen Marcy, had two children: a daughter named May and a son named George Brinton.

McClellan is perhaps best known for his service as General-in-Chief of the Union Army, 1861-1862, during the War Between the States. In 1864, he ran as the Democrat candidate for President of the United States, but lost the race to Abraham Lincoln. He went on to serve as the governor of New Jersey, from 1878-1881.

George Brinton McClellan died on 29 October 1885, in Orange, New Jersey.

Genealogy

George Brinton McClellan is the great-great-great-great(4G)-grandson of William Brinton "The Colonist", as shown in the lineage chart below:

Sources

• The World Book Encyclopedia, Millennium 2000 ed.
• Encyclopedia Americana, 1992 International ed.
• Academic American Encyclopedia, 1990 ed.
• The Brinton Genealogy, 1924.