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Caleb Cushing
Caleb Cushing

Caleb Cushing

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Born:
Jan. 17, 1800, Salisbury, Mass., U.S.
Died:
Jan. 2, 1879, Newburyport, Mass. (aged 78)
Political Affiliation:
Democratic Party

Caleb Cushing (born Jan. 17, 1800, Salisbury, Mass., U.S.—died Jan. 2, 1879, Newburyport, Mass.) was an American lawyer, Cabinet member, and diplomat around the period of the American Civil War (1861–65).

After serving in the state legislature and the U.S. Congress (1835–43), Cushing was appointed U.S. commissioner to China. There he negotiated the Treaty of Wanghia (1844) establishing the principle of extraterritoriality. In 1852 he became an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. President Franklin Pierce named him U.S. attorney general in 1853. Although he was chairman of the Democratic national convention at Charleston, S.C. (1860), when secession came he returned to Washington and supported President Abraham Lincoln. After the war President Ulysses S. Grant appointed him counsel for the United States at the Geneva Conference (1871–72) for the settlement of the Alabama claims. From 1874 to 1877 he was U.S. minister to Spain.

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