Caleb Cushing

Caleb Cushing ( born January 17, 1800 Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts; † 2 January 1879 in Newburyport, Massachusetts ) was a lawyer, politician and diplomat in the United States.

1829 Cushing toured Europe and published " Reminiscences of Spain". He joined the Whig Party, for which he entered on March 4, 1835 to the House of Representatives of the United States. In 1841 he turned to the Democratic Party, but was not satisfied by the parliamentary life in 1843 and went to China, where he succeeded on July 3, 1844 the completion of the first North American contract with China, the Treaty of Wanghia. In 1847 he was preparing for war with Mexico a regiment itself. From 1851 to 1852 he served as mayor of Newburyport, before he became in 1852 judge of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. From 1853 to 1857 he served as attorney general member of the Federal Government under President Franklin Pierce. In 1871 he represented the United States in the Mixed Commission on the Alabama question that the Treaty of Washington prepared in Geneva. In 1874 he was appointed minister plenipotentiary of his home in Spain. In 1877 he returned to the United States.

He wrote: The treaty of Washington ( New York 1873). See " Memorial of Caleb C." (Boston, 1880).