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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsJonathan RUSSELL
(1771-1832)
RUSSELL, Jonathan, a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in Providence, R.I.,
February 27, 1771; was graduated from Brown University (then Rhode
Island College), Providence, R.I., in 1791; studied law; was
admitted to the bar, but did not practice; engaged in mercantile
pursuits; appointed by President Madison to the Diplomatic Service
in France in 1811; transferred to England, where he was Chargé
d’Affaires when war was declared against the United States in
1812; Minister to Norway and Sweden from January 18, 1814, to
October 16, 1818; one of the five commissioners that negotiated the
treaty of peace at Ghent with Great Britain in 1814; returned to
the United States in 1818 and settled in Mendon, Mass.; writer and
orator; member of the state house of representatives in 1820;
elected as a Republican to the Seventeenth Congress (March 4,
1821-March 3, 1823); chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs
(Seventeenth Congress); died in Milton, Norfolk County, Mass.,
February 17, 1832; interment in the family plot on his estate in
Milton.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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