Alexander Hill Everett
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Alexander Hill Everett was an American diplomat, politician, and Boston man of letters. Everett held diplomatic posts in the Netherlands, Spain, Cuba, and China. His translations of European literatur
Alexander Hill Everett, 1790 1847, half, facing slightly right
Caleb Cushing
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Caleb Cushing was an American Democratic politician and diplomat who served as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts and the 23rd United States Attorney General under Presid
Alexander Hill Everett
…in Cuba he was appointed president of Jefferson College, Louisiana, but was soon obliged by failing health to return to New England. On the return of Caleb Cushing from his mission to China, Everett was appointed the next commissioner and sailed for Canton on July 4, 1845. He was detained by illness at Rio de…
Caleb Cushing
Engraving of Caleb Cushing
Share of the Great European American Emigration Land Company, issued 2. October 1868, signed by president Caleb Cushing.
Cushing's Chief Justice nomination