David Miller DeWitt

Born in 1837, David Miller DeWitt was an American lawyer, historian, and political writer. He was educated at Oxford Academy and Yale, later studied law, and went on to practice in New York.

DeWitt is remembered chiefly for writing works of U.S. political history, including books on the impeachment of Andrew Johnson and on the Jeffersonian and Jacksonian phases of the Democratic Party. His work reflects a strong interest in how parties, presidents, and constitutional conflicts shaped the country.

He died in 1912. Though not a household name today, his books remain useful to readers interested in 19th-century American politics and the way earlier historians interpreted that turbulent period.