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27-563: Cushing may refer to: People [ edit ] Cushing (surname) Places in the United States [ edit ] Cushing, Iowa Cushing, Maine Cushing, Minnesota Cushing Township, Minnesota Cushing, Nebraska Cushing, Oklahoma Cushing, Texas Cushing, Wisconsin Cushing Island, Maine Other uses [ edit ] Cushing Academy ,

54-894: A Democratic-Republican member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1825, then entered the Massachusetts Senate in 1826, and returned to the House in 1828. Afterwards, he spent two years in Europe from 1829 to 1831. Upon his return, he again served in the lower house of the state legislature in 1833 and 1834. Then, in late 1834, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives . Cushing served in Congress from 1835 until 1843 (the 24th , 25th , 26th and 27th Congresses ). During

81-832: A boarding school in Ashburnham, Massachusetts Cushing Hall , a dormitory at Hampden–Sydney College in Hampden Sydney, Virginia Cushing House , a dormitory at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York Cushing House Museum and Garden in Newburyport, Massachusetts Cushing's disease , an endocrine disorder (one of several specific causes of Cushing's syndrome) Cushing's syndrome , an endocrine disorder (an umbrella term for several disorders, including Cushing's disease and related disorders) Cushing reflex , in response to brain ischemia Cushing's triad ,

108-628: A clinical triad Cushing ulcer , a gastric ulcer USS Cushing (DD-985) See also [ edit ] Justice Cushing (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Cushing . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cushing&oldid=1009222149 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

135-1442: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Cushing (surname) Surname list Cushing is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alonzo Cushing (1841–1863), U.S. Army officer and recipient of the Medal of Honor Arthur Cushing (1869–1944), Canadian politician Brian Cushing (born 1987), American football player Caleb Cushing (1800–1879), US legislator Charles Cushing (1905–1982), American composer Charles Stuart Cushing (1867–1946), American attorney Christine Cushing , Canadian celebrity chef David Cushing (1920–2008), British fisheries biologist Eliza Lanesford Cushing (1794–1886), American-Canadian author and editor Frank Hamilton Cushing (1857–1900), American anthropologist Harvey Cushing (1869–1939), pioneer American neurosurgeon James M. Cushing (1908–1963), US Army mining engineer James T. Cushing (1937–2002), American physicist and philosopher of science John Cushing (actor) (1719–1790), British stage actor John Perkins Cushing (1787–1862), American merchant and philanthropist Kale Matthew Cushing (2007-present), Super Hero and Politician Kobie Cushing (2003-present), American baseball pitcher and philanthropist Luther Cushing (1803–1856), author of one of

162-462: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Caleb Cushing Cushing was an eager proponent of territorial and commercial expansion, especially regarding the acquisition of Texas , Oregon and Cuba . He believed that enlarging the American sphere would fulfill "the great destiny reserved for this exemplar American Republic." Cushing secured the first American treaty with China,

189-683: The Treaty of Wangxia of 1844; it gave American merchants trading rights in five Chinese ports. After the Civil War, Cushing negotiated a treaty with Colombia to give the United States a right-of-way for a trans-oceanic Canal. He helped obtain a favorable settlement of the Alabama Claims , and as the ambassador to Spain in 1870s defused the troublesome Virginius Affair . Cushing was born in Salisbury, Massachusetts , on January 17, 1800; he

216-451: The 1st Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment, of which he was placed in command on January 15, 1847. He was promoted to brigadier-general of volunteers on April 14 of the same year. He did not see combat during this conflict, and entered Mexico City with his reserve battalion several months after that city had been pacified. He was discharged from the Army on July 20, 1848. In 1847 and again in 1848

243-515: The 27th Congress, he was chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs . Here the marked inconsistency characterizing his public life became manifest. For when John Tyler had become president, had been read out of the Whig party, and had vetoed Whig measures (including a tariff bill) for which Cushing had voted, Cushing first defended the vetoes and then voted again for the bills. In 1843 President Tyler nominated Cushing for U.S. Secretary of

270-584: The Confederacy Jefferson Davis was found and made public. As a result of rising furor, the nomination was withdrawn on January 13, 1874. Cushing died in Newburyport on January 2, 1879, where he was laid to rest in the town's Highland Cemetery. The United States Revenue Cutter Caleb Cushing was named after Cushing. The Caleb Cushing served during the American Civil War and was destroyed by Confederate raiders during

297-598: The Cushing mission consisted of four American warships, loaded with gifts that exalted scientific wonders including revolvers, telescope, and an encyclopedia. His arrival at Macau in February 1844 created a local sensation, but the Chinese government was reluctant to designate another most favored nation. Cushing cleverly mixed the carrot and stick. He warned – against the backdrop of his warships – that not to receive an envoy

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324-477: The Democrats nominated him for Governor of Massachusetts , but on each occasion he was defeated at the polls. He was again a representative in the state legislature in 1851, was offered the position as Massachusetts Attorney General in 1851, but declined; and served as mayor of Newburyport in 1851 and 1852. (He had written a major history of the town when he was 26 years old.) He became an associate justice of

351-827: The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in 1852. During the presidency Franklin Pierce , from March 7, 1853, until March 3, 1857, he was Attorney General of the United States . Cushing supported the March 1857 Dred Scott decision . In 1858, 1859, 1862, and 1863 he again served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Also during this time, he founded the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin . The building it

378-575: The Presidency. Also in 1860 President James Buchanan sent him to Charleston as Confidential Commissioner to the Secessionists of South Carolina. Despite having favored states' rights and opposed the abolition of slavery, during the Civil War, he supported the Union. He was later appointed by President Andrew Johnson as one of three commissioners assigned to revise and codify the laws of

405-760: The Roman Catholic Church Stella Marek Cushing (1893–1938), American folklorist, violinist Stephen B. Cushing (died 1868), New York State Attorney General 1856–1857 Thomas Cushing (1725–1788), American lawyer and statesman William Cushing (1732–1810), Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court William B. Cushing (1842–1874), U.S. Navy officer William Henry Cushing (1852–1934), Canadian politician William Orcutt Cushing (1823–1902), American Unitarian minister and hymn writer Zattu Cushing (1771—1839), American shipbuilder and judge Josiah Nelson Cushing (1840–1905), Missionary and Scholar, Burma; author of

432-521: The Treasury , but the U.S. Senate refused to confirm him for this office. He was nominated three times in one day, and rejected all three times. John Canfield Spencer was chosen instead. In 1843, Cushing was appointed by President Tyler to be commissioner and United States Ambassador to China , holding this position until March 4, 1845. With the goal of impressing the Royal Chinese court,

459-734: The United States Congress. He served in that capacity from 1866 to 1870. In 1868, in concert with the Minister Resident to Colombia, Cushing was sent to Bogotá , Colombia , and worked to negotiate a right-of-way treaty for a ship canal across the Isthmus of Panama . At the Geneva conference for the settlement of the Alabama claims in 1871–1872 he was one of the counsels appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant for

486-703: The United States before the Geneva Tribunal of Arbitration on the Alabama claims. From January 6, 1874, to April 9, 1877, Cushing was Minister to Spain . He defused tensions over the Virginius Affair , and proved popular in the country. On January 9, 1874, Grant nominated Cushing as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court . The nomination came soon after Grant withdrew the nomination of George Henry Williams to

513-513: The earliest works on parliamentary procedure Nathan Cushing (1742–1812), Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Otho Cushing (c. 1820–1942), American artist Peter Cushing (1913–1994), British actor Robert Cushing (sculptor) (1841–1896), Irish sculptor Robert Reynolds Cushing (1952–2022), American politician Richard Cushing (1895–1970), American Cardinal of

540-561: The first Shan-English Dictionary and others [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Cushing . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cushing_(surname)&oldid=1252717437 " Categories : Surnames English-language surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

567-559: The high-speed clipper ships which carried relatively small amounts of high-value cargo, such as ginseng and silk. American Protestant missionaries also began to arrive. The popular Chinese reaction was mostly hostile, but there was a favorable element that provided a base of support for American missionaries and businessmen. By 1850–64, China was enmeshed in the Taiping rebellion , a civil war which caused millions of deaths; foreign trade stagnated. While serving as commissioner to China he

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594-445: The position. The selection caught many off-guard, including Cushing himself. Radical Republicans in the U.S. Senate immediately challenged Cushing's loyalties on account of his earlier close personal rapport with Andrew Johnson and his alleged pre-Civil War Copperhead sympathies. Their feelings of distrust turned into all out opposition to his confirmation when a (non-political) letter that Cushing had written in 1861 to President of

621-504: Was a national insult. He threatened to go directly to the Emperor – an unheard of procedure. The Emperor tried delay, but he finally sent an envoy to negotiate with Cushing, leading to the signing of the Treaty of Wanghia in the village of Wanghia on July 3, 1844. In addition to most favored nation status, Cushing made sure that Americans received extraterritoriality . In the following years American trade with China grew rapidly, thanks to

648-749: Was admitted to practice in the Massachusetts Court of Common Pleas in December 1821; he began practicing law in Newburyport in 1824. There he attended the First Presbyterian Church . On November 23, 1824, Cushing married Caroline Elizabeth Wilde, daughter of Judge Samuel Sumner Wilde , of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court . His wife died about a decade later, leaving him childless and alone. He never married again. Cushing served as

675-598: Was also empowered to negotiate a treaty of navigation and commerce with Japan. In 1847, while again a representative in the Massachusetts state legislature, he introduced a bill appropriating money for the equipment of a regiment to serve in the Mexican–American War ; although the bill was defeated, he raised the necessary funds privately. He served in the Army during the Mexican War first as colonel of

702-649: Was housed in, now known as the Cushing Land Agency Building , is listed on the National Register of Historic Places . In 1860 he presided over the Democratic National Convention , which met first at Charleston and later at Baltimore , until he joined those who seceded from the regular convention. He then presided also over the convention of the seceding delegates, who nominated John C. Breckinridge for

729-497: Was the son of John Newmarch Cushing, a wealthy shipbuilder and merchant, and Lydia Dow, a delicate and sensitive woman from Seabrook, New Hampshire , who died when he was ten. The family moved across the Merrimack River to the prosperous shipping town of Newburyport, Massachusetts , in 1802. He entered Harvard University at the age of 13 and graduated in 1817. He was a teacher of mathematics there from 1820 to 1821, and

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