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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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