Charles G. DeWitt

Charles Gerrit DeWitt (November 7, 1789 – April 12, 1839) was an American lawyer, diplomat, and politician from the U.S. state of New York.

He was a clerk in the Navy Department and published a newspaper, The Ulster Sentinel, beginning in 1826.

On March 22, 1831, he was appointed by Secretary of the Treasury Samuel D. Ingham as one of three Commissioners of Insolvency for the Southern District of New York.

[4] He was appointed United States Chargé d'Affaires to Guatemala in 1833, and served in that position until 1839.

[8] His great-nephew Henry Richard DeWitt was a New York state assemblyman.