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Cushing, Caleb (1800–1879)

US politician. He was elected to Congress 1835, and, under John Tyler, became the first American ministerial envoy to China. He made a treaty between the USA and China 1844, which opened up China to US missionaries and US trade. In 1852 he was appointed Attorney General.

Cushing was born in Salisbury, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard. He qualified as a lawyer 1821, and practised at Newburyport. In 1824 he was elected to the state legislature, and in 1826 to the state senate.

He later became a Republican and was legal consultant to the abolitionist politicians William Henry Seward and Abraham Lincoln. From 1874 to 1877 he acted as the US ambassador in Spain.
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138) Even after Caleb Cushing began the tradition of abandoning private practice on accepting appointment to the office in the 1850s, the financial sacrifice was substantial.
Professional independence in the Office of the Attorney General by Spaulding, Norman W. / Stanford Law Review
 
 
 
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