Memoranda of a residence at the court of London. By Richard Rush, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary from the United States of America, from 1817 to 1825
Title | Memoranda of a residence at the court of London. By Richard Rush, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary from the United States of America, from 1817 to 1825 PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Rush |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 1833 |
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Richard Rush
Title | Richard Rush PDF eBook |
Author | J. H. Powell |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2016-11-11 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1512805815 |
This volume deals with a man whose life was intimately connected with a most significant formative period in American civilization. Son of the celebrated Dr. Benjamin Rush, Richard Rush was not such a dynamic personality, but in his earnest, gracious way he left almost as deep an imprint on many phases of national life. Educated as a lawyer, his first public: post was Attorney-General of Pennsylvania. This was followed in 1811 by appointment as Comptroller of the United States Treasury, and in 1814 as Attorney-General of the United States. He was Secretary of State in 1817, consummating the Rush-Bagot Convention deĀmilitarizing the boundary between America and Canada. For eight years, 1817-1825, he was Minister to England, negotiating the Commercial Convention of 1818, conducting the initial conversations which led to the Monroe Doctrine, and working tirelessly for Anglo-American accord. He returned to the United States in 1825 to be Adams' Secretary of the Treasury and unsuccessful candidate for Vice-President in 1828. He was a leading advocate of internal improvements and prominent as an Anti-Mason, but split with his party over the Bank issue. In 1836 Jackson sent him to England to secure the estate of James Smithson, from which grew the Smithsonian Institution. His last office was that of Minister to France in 1847, completing a career of exceptional variety and service, which is described in this biography for the first time. In addition to his official activities, Rush was a prolific writer, chiefly of political pamphlets, but he also edited the first authentic collection of the federal statues and published the two volumes of "Memoranda" of his diplomatic missions. His life necessarily touched many of the great men of his day, and throughout this record of Richard Rush the background and personalities of an important historical period are clearly traced for the reader.
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Title | Zoological Recreations PDF eBook |
Author | William John Broderip |
Publisher | |
Pages | 422 |
Release | 1849 |
Genre | Animals |
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Title | Don Quixote PDF eBook |
Author | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |
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Pages | 502 |
Release | 1847 |
Genre | Knights and knighthood |
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Title | A Treatise on Astronomy PDF eBook |
Author | John Frederick William Herschel |
Publisher | |
Pages | 492 |
Release | 1851 |
Genre | Astronomy |
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Title | Memoirs of a Hungarian Lady PDF eBook |
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Publisher | |
Pages | 432 |
Release | 1850 |
Genre | Hungary |
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Title | Notes from Nineveh, and Travels in Mesopotamia, Assyria, and Syria PDF eBook |
Author | James Phillips Fletcher |
Publisher | |
Pages | 440 |
Release | 1850 |
Genre | Assyria |
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