Timothy Pickering

Timothy Pickering (born July 17, 1745 in Salem , Province of Massachusetts Bay , † January 29, 1829 ibid) was an American politician of the Federalist Party and the third Secretary of State of the United States .

Life

Pickering graduated from Harvard University in 1763 . At the beginning of the American Revolution , he fought on the side of the patriots , but in 1777 accepted George Washington's offer to serve as General-Adjutant in the American Army , which in retrospect turned out to be the best decision. After two failed speculative deals with parts of the Pennsylvania frontier country , George Washington, who had meanwhile risen to the position of president , made him Commissioner for the Iroquois Indians and in 1791 took him into his cabinet as Minister of Post . Pickering held this post until 1795. In that year he was briefly appointed Minister of War and on December 19, 1795, succeeded Edmund Randolph as Secretary of State.

As foreign minister, he helped negotiate the Canandaigua Treaty with the Iroquois in 1794 . He was unable to defuse the increasing tensions with France, which culminated in the quasi-war . After differences of opinion with the new President John Adams , who accused him of scheming against him together with Alexander Hamilton , he was dismissed as Foreign Secretary on May 2, 1800. He was succeeded on June 13 of the same year by John Marshall .

Pickering was elected to the US Senate for Massachusetts in 1803 , which he remained until 1811. He was then a member of the US House of Representatives from 1813 to 1817 . In 1815 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

After his political career, Pickering went back to Salem and lived as a farmer until his death in 1829.

literature

Gerard H. Clarfield: Timothy Pickering and the American Republic. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh 1980, ISBN 0-8229-3414-0 .
Pickering, Timothy . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 21 : Payn - Polka . London 1911, p. 583 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).

Web links

Commons : Timothy Pickering - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Timothy Pickering in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
Timothy Pickering in the Miller Center of Public Affairs of the University of Virginia (English)

Remarks

↑ James R. McIntyre: Pickering, Timothy. In Spencer C. Tucker (Ed.): The Encyclopedia of the Wars of the Early American Republic, 1783-1812: A Political, Social, and Military History. Volume 1: A – K. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara 2014, ISBN 978-1-59884-157-2 , p. 519 .

personal data
SURNAME	Pickering, Timothy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician
DATE OF BIRTH	July 17, 1745
PLACE OF BIRTH	Salem , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH	January 29, 1829
Place of death	Salem , Massachusetts

[1] James R. McIntyre: Pickering, Timothy. In Spencer C. Tucker (Ed.): The Encyclopedia of the Wars of the Early American Republic, 1783-1812: A Political, Social, and Military History. Volume 1: A – K. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara 2014, ISBN 978-1-59884-157-2 , p. 519 .