Download or read book John Randolph Clay written by George Irvin Oeste and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the biography of a nineteenth-century gentleman whose career in the diplomatic service of his country contributed greatly to the worldwide expansion of American trade and commerce. John Randolph Clay (1808-1885), son of a Philadelphia Congressman, was named in honor of John Randolph, his father's friend and political associate, with whom he lived after his father's death. In 1830, John Randolph, appointed Minister to Russia, secured the appointment of Clay as Secretary of Legation. Randolph soon returned home, seriously ill, leaving Clay as Charge d'Affaires. Although youthful and inexperienced, Clay acquitted himself well, continuing in diplomatic posts in Russia and Austria for seventeen years. From 1847 to 1860, Clay was the diplomatic representative of the United States in Peru. He worked tirelessly, whether applying pressure for the payment of claims, protecting the business and personal interests of Americans, or insisting on the rights of our citizens to participate in the guano trade. He negotiated treaties of commerce, maritime rights, and whaling rights with the Peruvian government. His greatest triumph came in avoiding a rupture with Peru at the time of the Lobos Islands controversy. During the thirty years in which he served his country in foreign lands, Clay saw the coming of the steamship, the railroad, and the telegraph. He met or was on terms of personal friendship with many of the great men of the age: Prince Metternich, Louis Phillipe, Count Nesselrode, and the Peruvian dictator-president Castilla. He was equally at ease amid the splendors of court life in St. Petersburg or Vienna or in the shabby palace of the Peruvian president in the ancient city of Lima. His story, fascinating in itself, is also the story of the growth of the United States diplomatic service.
Download or read book John Randolph Clay written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Diplomatic Career of John Randolph Clay written by George Irvin Oeste and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Randolph Clay To Accompany Bill H R No 647 January 4 1843 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Randolph Clay To Accompany Joint Resolution No 5 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Randolph Clay To Accompany Bill H R No 647 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters of John Randolph to a Young Relative written by John Randolph and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Randolph written by Henry Adams and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Randolph written by Henry Adams and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1995-12-18 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's foremost political eccentric of the early national era, the Virginian John Randolph of Roanoke (1773-1833), referred to John and John Quincy Adams as the American House of Stuart and opposed virtually all their political deeds and principles. Henry Adams, perhaps the most eccentric as well as brilliant American historian of the nineteenth century, avenged his grandfather and great-grandfather with this incisively negative biography. Its relative brevity makes it an ideal introduction to Henry Adams's thinking and writing about American history. Furthermore, however unbalanced and therefore unfair to its subject, Adams's Randolph leaves a compelling picture of a states' rights idealist who became, before he died, the prophet of the southern defense of slavery. As greatly and deeply as Henry Adams disliked John Randolph of Roanoke, he had, almost in spite of himself, a deep bond of sympathy. Both were morally and culturally cut off from the booster-dominated, progressive, materialistic mainstream of United States culture. American aristocrats by birth, education, and wealth, both were insiders turned outsiders. --From the Introduction Professor Robert McColley introduces the volume and includes several of Randolph's speeches and letters not in the original edition.
Download or read book Memorial of John Randolph Clay Ambassador to Peru for Law on Relief of Distressed U S Citizens written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Randolph written by Adams and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Randolph of Roanoke 1773 1833 written by William Cabell Bruce and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Randolph of Roanoke 1773 1833 written by William Cabell Bruce and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Duel Between Mr Clay and Mr Randolph written by Thomas Hart Benton and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the duel between Henry Clay and John Randolph, 1 Apr. 1826, at which Benton was a witness.
Download or read book John Randolph of Roanoke written by David Johnson and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2012-05-07 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most eccentric and accomplished politicians in all of American history, John Randolph (1773–1833) led a life marked by controversy. The long-serving Virginia congressman and architect of southern conservatism grabbed headlines with his prescient comments, public brawls, and clashes with every president from John Adams to Andrew Jackson. The first biography of Randolph in nearly a century, John Randolph of Roanoke provides a full account of the powerful Virginia planter's hard-charging life and his impact on the formation of conservative politics. The Randolph lineage loomed large in early America, and Randolph of Roanoke emerged as one of the most visible—and certainly the most bombastic—among his clan. A colorful orator with aristocratic manners, he entertained the House of Representatives (and newspaper readers across the country) with three-hour-long speeches on subjects of political import, drawing from classical references for his analogies, and famously pausing to gain "courage" from a tumbler at his side. Adept at satire and uncensored in his verbal attacks against colleagues, he invited challenges to duel from those he offended; in 1826, he and the then-secretary of state Henry Clay exchanged gunfire on the banks of the Potomac. A small-government Jeffersonian in political tastes, Randolph first entered Congress in 1799. As chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee he memorably turned on President Jefferson, once and for all, in 1805, believing his fellow Virginian to have compromised his republican values. As a result, Randolph led the "Old Republicans," a faction that sought to restrict the role of the federal government. In this rich biography, David Johnson draws upon an impressive array of primary sources—Randolph's letters, speeches, and writings—previously unavailable to scholars. John Randolph of Roanoke tells the story of a young nation and the unique philosophy of a southern lawmaker who defended America's agrarian tradition and reveled in his own controversy.
Download or read book A Biography of John Randolph of Roanoke written by Lemuel Sawyer and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Randolph of Roanoke written by David Johnson and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2012-05-07 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography chronicles the life of the long-serving Virginia congressman and architect of southern conservatism who courted controversy with his public duels and clashes with presidents, including Thomas Jefferson.
