Louis McLane

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Louis McLane (born May 28, 1786 in Smyrna , Delaware , † October 7, 1857 in Baltimore , Maryland ) was an American politician, senator, finance and foreign minister.

Life

McLane was born in Smyrna and went to private school. At the age of 17 he was hired for a year on the USS Philadelphia as a seaman. At the age of 18 he went to Newark College , later the University of Delaware , and studied law. In 1807 he started his own legal practice in his hometown.

After the end of his military service and the end of the war in 1812, he increasingly took care of his political influence and was elected five times in a row as a representative of the federalists in the United States House of Representatives from 1817 to 1827 . He was elected a sixth time, but refused and changed as a representative of Delaware from March 4, 1827 in the US Senate . There he resigned his mandate on April 16, 1829 to become ambassador to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland . On his return he was appointed President Andrew Jackson as finance minister in his cabinet , where he succeeds on Aug. 8, 1831 Samuel D. Ingham took. On May 29, 1833, he then took over as the successor to Edward Livingston as Foreign Minister , which he held until June 30, 1834. In the meantime he had converted to the Democrats founded by Andrew Jackson .

After serving as Secretary of State, he moved to Baltimore and was President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from 1837 to 1847 . From 1845 to 1846 he then acted once again as ambassador to London .

literature

  • Lester Brooks: Louis McLane. In Edward S. Mihalkanin (Ed.): American Statesmen: Secretaries of State from John Jay to Colin Powell. Greenwood Publishing, Westport 2004, ISBN 978-0-313-30828-4 , pp. 368-373.

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SURNAME McLane, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Politician, Senator, Treasury Secretary, and Secretary of State
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH Smyrna , Delaware
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 1857
Place of death Baltimore , Maryland