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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Diplomatic service. (search)
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Paine , Robert treat 1731 -1814 (search)
Paine, Robert treat 1731-1814
A signer of the Declaration of Independence; born in Boston, March 11, 1731; graduated at Harvard University in 1749; taught school to help support his parents, and also made a voyage to Europe.
He studied theology, and in 1758 was chaplain of provincial troops.
Then he studied law, and practised it in Taunton successfully for many years.
He was the prosecuting attorney in the case of Captain Preston and his men after the Boston massacre.
A delegate to the Provincial Congress in 1774, he was sent to the Continental Congress the same year, where he served until 1778.
On the organization of the State of Massachusetts, he was made attorney-general, he having been one of the committee who drafted the constitution of that commonwealth.
Mr. Paine settled in Boston in 1780, and was judge of the Massachusetts Supreme Court from 1790 to 1804.
He died in Boston, May 11, 1814.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pauncefote , Lord Julian of Preston 1828 - (search)
Pauncefote, Lord Julian of Preston 1828-
Diplomatist; born in Preston Court, England, in 1828; was called to the bar in 1852; appointed attorney-general of Hong-Kong in 1865; acting chief-justice of the Supreme Court in 1869-72; became permanent foreign under secretary in 1882; minister to the United States in 1889; and ambassador in 1893.
He represented Great Britain at the Suez Canal conference in 1885, and at the peace conference at The Hague in 1899, and in the latter year was created first Lord Pauncefote.
Since his official residence in the United States he has been connected with the several diplomatic questions between the two countries, and so won the esteem of the United States government that his term of office was extended at its request.
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