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WASHBURNE, ELIHU BENJAMIN (1816–1887)

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WASHBURNE, ELIHU See also:BENJAMIN (1816–1887) , See also:American statesman, See also:born in See also:Livermore, See also:Maine, on the 23rd of See also:September 1816. He was one of seven See also:brothers, of whom four sat in See also:Congress from as many different states. He received a See also:common school See also:education, graduated at the Harvard See also:Law School in 1839, and was soon afterwards admitted to the See also:bar. In 184o he removed to See also:Galena, See also:Illinois. He was elected to Congress in 1852, where, first as a Whig and afterwards as a Republican, he represented his See also:district continuously until 1869, taking a prominent See also:part in debate, and earning the name " See also:watch-See also:dog of the See also:Treasury " by his consistent and vigorous opposition to extravagant and unwise appropriations. He contributed much to aid See also:General See also:Grant during the See also:Civil See also:War, and the latter on becoming See also:President made Washburne secretary of See also:state. On See also:account of See also:ill-See also:health, however, he served only twelve days, and was then appointed See also:minister to See also:France, where during the Franco-Prussian War and the See also:Commune he won much distinction as See also:protector of See also:German and other See also:foreign citizens in See also:Paris. He was the only foreign minister who remained at his See also:post during the Commune. In 1817 he retired from public See also:life, and died in See also:Chicago, See also:Ili., on the 22nd of See also:October 1887. He published Recollections of a Minister to France (2 vols., 1887), and edited The See also:Edwards Papers (1884).

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