Johannes Petrus "John Peter" Van Ness was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1801 to 1803 and Mayor of Washington, D.C. from 1830 to 1834.
Mathew Brady, John Peter Van Ness, between 1844 and 1846, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Daguerreotype collection
Gilbert Stuart, Marcia Van Ness, 1805, original on display at Edgewater, a historic mansion in Barrytown, New York.
William Peter Van Ness was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New York and the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, also notable for serving as Aaron Burr's second in Burr's duel with Alexander Hamilton.
William Peter Van Ness, 1807 engraving by Charles Saint-Mémin