Jonathan Russell

Jonathan Russell ( born February 27, 1771 in Providence, Rhode Iceland, † February 17, 1832 in Milton, Massachusetts) was an American diplomat and politician. Between 1821 and 1823 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Jonathan Russell attended Brown University in Providence until 1791. He studied law, but without ever working as a lawyer. Instead, he was engaged in trade and in politics. Politically, he was a member of the end of the 1790s by Thomas Jefferson founded the Democratic-Republican Party. Since 1811 he was in the diplomatic service of the federal government. Initially, he worked at the U.S. Embassy in France and then as chargé at the embassy in England. This office he held at the outbreak of the British - American War. Between 1814 and 1818, he was the first American ambassador to Sweden. In 1814 he acted as one of the American negotiators at the peace negotiations at Ghent. By this peace the British -American War was ended. From this activity a dispute between him and the future President John Quincy Adams, who also participated in the negotiations, later relaxing. Russell accused him of having favored the British. So he attacked massively detrimental Adams in the presidential election campaign of 1824 a. Adams was elected anyway after a disputed election in U.S. House of Representatives to the presidency.

1818 Russell returned back to the United States, where he settled in Mendon. In 1820 he was a deputy in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. In the congressional elections of 1820 he was in the eleventh electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Benjamin Adams on March 4, 1821. Until March 3, 1823, he was able to complete a term in Congress. During this time he managed the foreign affairs committee. Jonathan Russell died on 17 February 1832 in Milton, where he was also buried.