Caleb Cushing
Caleb Cushing (January 17, 1800 – January 2, 1879) 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 President Franklin Pierce. From 1874 until 1877, he was the U.S. Minister to Spain.
Quotes
[edit]- Cruel war—war at home, and in the perspective distance a man on horseback with a drawn sword in his hand, some Atlantic Cæsar, or Cromwell, or Napoleon.
- Letter from Bangor, Maine (January, 1860); reported in The Historical Magazine, vol. 5, no. 10 (October, 1861), p. 313
See also
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- Claude Moore Fuess, The Life of Caleb Cushing, vol. 2 (Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1923), p. 243
- George Stimpson, A Book About a Thousand Things (Harper & Row, 1946), p. 4
- American Notes and Queries, vol. 6, no. 26 (April 25, 1891), pp. 306–7
Categories:
- 1800 births
- 1879 deaths
- Democratic Party (United States) politicians
- Politicians from Massachusetts
- Members of the United States House of Representatives
- Lawyers from the United States
- Ambassadors of the United States
- United States Army people
- Military leaders from the United States
- United States Attorneys General