George Bancroft Born: 3-Oct-1800 Birthplace: Worcester, MA Died: 17-Jan-1891 Location of death: Washington, DC Cause of death: unspecified Remains: Buried, Rural Cemetery, Worcester, MA
Gender: Male Religion: Congregationalist Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Historian, Government Party Affiliation: Democratic Nationality: United States Executive summary: A History of the United States Father: Aaron Bancroft (Unitarian minister) Mother: Lucretia Chandler Wife: Sarah H. Dwight (d. 1837, three children) Wife: Elizabeth Bliss Son: George Jr. Son: John Daughter: (two)
High School: Phillips Exeter Academy University: BA, Harvard University (1817) University: MA, University of Göttingen (1820) University: PhD, University of Göttingen (1820) Teacher: Founder, Round Hill School for Boys, Northampton, MA
US Ambassador to Germany (1868-74) US Ambassador to Prussia (1867-68) US Ambassador to the United Kingdom (1846-49) US Secretary of War Acting (1845) US Secretary of the Navy Mar-1845 to Sep-1846, under James Knox Polk American Academy of Arts and Sciences Associate Fellow (1863) American Geographical Society President (1852-54)
Funeral: Abraham Lincoln (1865)
Author of books:
History of the Colonization of the United States (1839, history) A History of the United States (1834-74, history, ten vol.)
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