question: Pittstown, New Jersey was named after what British statesman of the Whig group who was known as The Great Commoner?
answer: William Pitt
context: Title: British general election, 1747
  Passage: The British general election, 1747, returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 10th Parliament of Great Britain to be summoned, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707.  The election saw Henry Pelham's Whig government increase its majority and the Tories continue their decline.  By 1747, thirty years of Whig oligarchy and systematic corruption had weakened party ties substantially; despite the fact that Walpole, the main reason for the split that led to the creation of the Patriot Whig faction, had resigned, there were still almost as many Whigs in opposition to the ministry as there were Tories, and the real struggle for power was between various feuding factions of Whig aristocrats rather than between the old parties.  The Tories had become an irrelevant group of country gentlemen who had resigned themselves to permanent opposition.
  Title: William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
  Passage: William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (15 November 1708 – 11 May 1778) was a British statesman of the Whig group who led the government of Great Britain twice in the middle of the 18th century.  Historians call him Pitt of Chatham, or William Pitt the Elder to distinguish from his son, William Pitt the Younger, who also was a prime minister.  Pitt was also known as The Great Commoner, because of his long-standing refusal to accept a title until 1766.
  Title: Alexandria Airport (New Jersey)
  Passage: Alexandria Airport (FAA LID: N85) is a public-use airport located in Alexandria Township, New Jersey, two nautical miles (3.704 km) west of Pittstown, in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States.  The airport is privately owned.
  Title: Mount Salem Vineyards
  Passage: Mount Salem Vineyards is a boutique winery in the Pittstown section of Alexandria Township in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States.  Formerly a produce, grain, and dairy farm, the vineyard was first planted in 2005, and opened to the public in 2010.  Peter Leiter, the proprietor of Mount Salem, founded the Appalachian Highlands Vinifera Society, whose mission is to enhance the quality of wine grape growing and winemaking in Northern New Jersey.  Mount Salem has 7 acres of grapes under cultivation, and produces 1,000 cases of wine per year.  The winery is located at over 600 feet above sea level on Mount Salem, the mountain for which the farm is named.
  Title: Poet Laureate of New Jersey
  Passage: The Poet Laureate of New Jersey (statutorily known as New Jersey William Carlos Williams Citation of Merit) was an honor presented biennially by the Governor of New Jersey to a distinguished New Jersey poet.  Created in 1999, this position existed for less than four years and was abolished by the legislature effective July 2, 2003.  When the New Jersey State Legislature created the laureate position, the bill provided specifically for the creation of an award named in honor of twentieth-century poet and physician William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) who resided in Rutherford, New Jersey.  However, the legislature recognized that the award's recipient would "be considered the poet laureate of the State of New Jersey for a period of two years.  Before the position was abolished, only two poets, Gerald Stern and Amiri Baraka, had been appointed as the state's poet laureate.
  Title: New Jersey Medical School
  Passage: New Jersey Medical School (NJMS)—also known as Rutgers New Jersey Medical School—is a graduate medical school of Rutgers University that is part of the division of Biomedical and Health Sciences.  NJMS is the oldest school of medicine in New Jersey.  The school of medicine was founded in 1954 as the Seton Hall College of Medicine and Dentistry, established under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark, in Jersey City, New Jersey.  On August 6, 1954, the College was incorporated as a legal entity separate from Seton Hall University, but with an interlocking Board of Trustees.  The first class of 80 students was admitted to the four-year MD program in September 1956, becoming only the sixth medical school in the New York City metropolitan area.  In 1965, the institution was acquired by the State of New Jersey, renamed the New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry (NJCMD), and relocated to Newark, New Jersey.  With the passing of the Medical and Dental Education Act of 1970, signed into law by Governor William T. Cahill on June 16, the College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (CMDNJ) was created, merging NJCMD with the two-year medical school established at Rutgers University in 1961, under a single board of trustees.
  Title: Pittstown, New Jersey
  Passage: Pittstown is an unincorporated community located at the intersection of the boundaries of Alexandria, Franklin and Union townships in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States.  The area is named after William Pitt.  The area is served as United States Postal Service ZIP Code 08867.  The area was named Hofftown in the 18th century after landowner Lawrence Hoff.
  Title: James Z. George
  Passage: James Zachariah George (October 20, 1826August 14, 1897) was an American lawyer, writer, and politician and Confederate politician and military officer.  He was known as Mississippi's "Great Commoner."
  Title: George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle
  Passage: George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle (17 September 1773 – 7 October 1848), styled Viscount Morpeth until 1825, was a British statesman.  He served as Lord Privy Seal between 1827 and 1828 and in 1834 and was a member of Lord Grey's Whig government as Minister without Portfolio between 1830 and 1834.
  Title: Charles James Fox
  Passage: Charles James Fox (24 January 1749 – 13 September 1806), styled The Honourable from 1762, was a prominent British Whig statesman whose parliamentary career spanned 38 years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries and who was the arch-rival of William Pitt the Younger.  His father Henry, a leading Whig of his day, had similarly been the great rival of Pitt's famous father.  He rose to prominence in the House of Commons as a forceful and eloquent speaker with a notorious and colourful private life, though his opinions were rather conservative and conventional.  However, with the coming of the American War of Independence and the influence of the Whig Edmund Burke, Fox's opinions evolved into some of the most radical ever to be aired in the Parliament of his era.
citations: William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham Pittstown, New Jersey