"Attorney General" Caleb Cushing Hand Signed 2X4.5 Card For Sale
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"Attorney General" Caleb Cushing Hand Signed 2X4.5 Card:
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Up for sale "Attorney General" Caleb Cushing Hand Signed 2X4.5 Card.
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Caleb
Cushing (January 17, 1800
– January 2, 1879) was an diplomat who served as a Congressman President Franklin Pierce. He was an eager proponent of territorial and
commercial expansion, especially regarding the acquisition of Texas, Oregon and
Cuba. He believed that enlarging the American sphere would fulfill "the
great destiny reserved for this exemplar American Republic." Cushing secured the first American treaty with
China, the Treaty of Wangxia of
1844; it gave American merchants trading rights in five Chinese ports. After the Civil War, Cushing negotiated a
treaty with Colombia to give the United States a right-of-way for a
trans-oceanic Canal. He helped obtain a favorable settlement of the Alabama Claims, and as the ambassador to Spain in 1870s
defused the troublesome Virginius Affair. Born in Salisbury, Massachusetts in
1800, he was the son of John Newmarch Cushing, a wealthy shipbuilder and merchant, and of Lydia Dow, a delicate
and sensitive woman from Seabrook, New Hampshire,
who died when he was ten. The family moved across the Merrimack River to the prosperous shipping town of Newburyport, Massachusetts in
1802. He entered Harvard University at
the age of 13 and graduated in 1817. He was a teacher of mathematics there from
1820 to 1821, and was admitted to practice in the Massachusetts Court of Common
Pleas in December, 1821. He began practicing law in Newburyport in 1824. There he attended the First
Presbyterian Church. On November 23, 1824, Cushing married Caroline
Elizabeth Wilde, daughter of Judge Samuel Sumner Wilde, of the Massachusetts
Supreme Judicial Court. His wife died about a decade later, leaving
him childless and alone. He never married again. Cushing served as the Massachusetts
House of Representatives in 1825, then entered the Massachusetts Senate in
1826, and returned to the House in 1828. Afterwards, he spent two years, from
1829 to 1831, in Europe. Upon his return, he again served in the lower house of
the state legislature in 1833 and 1834. Then, in late 1834, he was elected to
the United
States House of Representatives. Cushing
served in Congress from 1835 until 1843 (the 24th, 25th, 26th and 27th Congresses).
During the 27th Congress, he was chairman of the U.S. House
Committee on Foreign Affairs. Here the marked inconsistency
characterizing his public life became manifest. For when John Tyler had become president, had been read out of the
Whig party, and had vetoed Whig measures (including a tariff bill) for which
Cushing had voted, Cushing first defended the vetoes and then voted again for
the bills. In 1843 President Tyler nominated Cushing for U.S. Secretary of the
Treasury, but the U.S. Senate refused
to confirm him for this office. He was nominated three times in one day, and
rejected all three times ]John Canfield Spencer was
chosen instead.
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