Bancroft Treaties
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The Bancroft treaties, also called the Bancroft conventions, were a series of agreements made in the late 19th and early 20th centuries between the United States and other countries. They recognized t
George Bancroft before his appointment as U.S. Minister to Prussia.
George Bancroft
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George Bancroft was an American historian, statesman and Democratic politician who was prominent in promoting secondary education both in his home state of Massachusetts and at the national and intern
Bancroft Treaties
…in which naturalized persons were legally presumed to have abandoned their new citizenship and resumed their old one. Named for historian and diplomat George Bancroft (1800–1891), who negotiated the first of these agreements with Prussia, the Bancroft treaties were mainly intended to prevent individuals from using…
Bancroft's bookplate and signature. "Eis phaos" is Greek for "Towards the Light".
Bancroft in 1846
George Bancroft in his office (c. 1889)