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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Tocqueville , Alexis Charles Henri Clerel , Count de 1805 -1859 (search)
Tocqueville, Alexis Charles Henri Clerel, Count de 1805-1859
Statesman; born in Paris, France, July 29, 1805; became a lawyer in 1827; visited the United States with Gustave de Beaumont in 1831 to study the penitentiary system.
Returning to France he there advocated the solitary method as practised in the penitentiary of Cherry Hill, Philadelphia, and was largely instrumental in entirely remodelling not only the penitentiary system of France, but of the continent.
He was the author of The penitentiary system of the United States and its application in France (with Gustave de Beaumont); Democracy in America; On the penitentiary system in the United States and the confidential mission for the minister of the Interior of Mm. De Beaumont and de Tocqueville, etc. He died in Cannes, France, April 16, 1859.