Tench Coxe

Tench Coxe

Tench Coxe (born May 22, 1755 in Philadelphia , Province of Pennsylvania , †  July 17, 1824 ibid) was an American politician . In 1789 he was a delegate for Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress .

Career

Tench Coxe attended public schools in his home country. Then he wanted to study law, but his father would not allow him. Instead, he went into trade. He worked for a company that later called itself Coxe & Furman , of which he became a partner in 1776. During the War of Independence he was initially loyal to the British Crown and in the meantime even served in their army. He was arrested by the Americans and then pardoned. Then he changed his mind and joined their movement. In the 1780s he was a member of the Pennsylvania State Militia. In 1786 he was a delegate to the Federal Convention in Annapolis . In 1789 he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the Continental Congress.

In the 1790s he became a member of the Federalist Party founded by Alexander Hamilton . From 1789 to 1792 he was employed under Hamilton, who was then US Treasury Secretary , as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Treasury. He then worked from 1792 to 1797 as Revenue Commissioner for the Treasury. He fell out with President John Adams and joined the Democratic Republican Party . Between 1803 and 1812 he held the post of purveyor of public supplies . Coxe has been a politically controversial figure all these years. He was also the author of many political and economic writings and treatises. In 1796 he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society . He died in Philadelphia on July 17, 1824.

Web links

Wikiquote: Tench Coxe  - Quotes

• Tench Coxe in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Tench Coxe in the database of Find a Grave (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Member History: Tench Coxe. American Philosophical Society, accessed June 30, 2018 .