Anson Burlingame

Anson Burlingame ( born November 14, 1820 New Berlin, Chenango County, New York, † February 23, 1870 in St. Petersburg, Russia) was an American diplomat and politician. Between 1855 and 1861 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives; later, he was an American ambassador in Austria and China.

Career

Anson Burlingame in 1823 came with his parents in the Seneca County, Ohio; in 1833 the family moved to Detroit in Michigan on. He attended private schools in its respective home. He then studied at the branch of the University of Michigan in Detroit. After studying law at Harvard University and his 1846 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Boston in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the American Party a political career. In 1852 he sat in the Senate from Massachusetts. The following year he was a delegate at a meeting to revise the State Constitution.

In the congressional elections of 1854 Burlingame was in the fifth electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Appleton on March 4, 1855. After a re-election as a candidate of the Republican Party, whose member he had become in the meantime, he was able to complete two terms in Congress, 1859 to March 3. These were shaped by the events in the immediate run-up to the Civil War. In 1860 he was not re-elected.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Burlingame worked in the diplomatic service of the federal government. In 1861 he was appointed as the successor of Jehu Glancy Jones as ambassador to Vienna; there he was rejected because of some of his views on some branches of the Danube monarchy. Between 1861 and 1867 he was a follower of John Elliott Ward American ambassador to China. He then worked for the Chinese government, he participated in the drafting by international treaties. Anson Burlingame died on February 23, 1870 in St. Petersburg, Russia, where he was to contract negotiations, and was buried in Cambridge.

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