DRAKE, JOSEPH RODMAN, an American poet; born in New York, Aug. 7, 1795. The poems for which he is gratefully remembered are “The Culprit Fay” (1819), and “The American Flag” (1819). With Fitz-Greene Halleck, under the signature, “The Croakers,” he published in a New York journal in 1819 a series of short lyrics, mostly of a humorous kind, on the political affairs of the time. He died Sept. 21, 1820.