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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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