Nicholas Trist

Nicholas Philip Trist ( born June 2, 1800, Charlottesville, Virginia; † February 11, 1874 in Alexandria, Virginia) was an American diplomat.

Trist was born on June 2, 1800 in Charlottesville. He attended West Point and studied law under Thomas Jefferson, whose granddaughter Virginia Jefferson Randolph, he married. At times, he was also the private secretary to Andrew Jackson.

1833 Trist consul in Havana, Cuba. As a proponent of slavery he was involved in the illegal slave trade. There was an investigation by Congress, which ended with Trists dismissal from Cuba. During the Mexican- American War, President James K. Polk sent him to Mexico to negotiate a ceasefire with the government. Dissatisfied with his approach Polk called him back. Trist ignored the statement and closed on February 2, 1848 the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, in which the Mexicans against the payment of $ 15 million ( in today's purchasing power U.S. $ 475 million ) and the acquisition of Mexican Americans in debt to the Rio Grande as the boundary accepted by Texas and a 1.36 million km ² of territory ceded on the west includes the present states of Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and a small part of Wyoming.

Upon his return to Washington, D.C. he was fired for insubordination and his expenses not paid until 1871.

Trist died on February 11, 1874 in Alexandria.

• Diplomat of the United States
• Lawyer ( United States)
• Americans
• Born in 1800
• Died in 1874
• Man