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Before pivoting to invention, this Yale graduate built a reputation as one of America's finest portrait artists, painting the Marquis de Lafayette, U.S. presidents, and other prominent figures of the early republic. He founded and served as the first president of the National Academy of Design in New York, and twice ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of New York City. He died wealthy and celebrated in 1872. What was this man's name?

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