Biddle, Nicholas, 1786-1844

Writer, politician and financier, of Pennsylvania.

José Francisco Correia da Serra was a Portuguese scholar, naturalist and diplomat.

William Clark requested that Nicholas Biddle, scholar, statesman, and financier, write a narrative of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, which was published in 1814 as "History of the Expedition of Captains Lewis and Clark."

Nicholas Biddle, litterateur and financier of Philadelphia, attended Princeton and served as: secretary to American Legation in Paris; editor of the "Port Folio;" member of the Pensylvania state legislature; and president of the Bank of the United States. After leaving the Bank of the United States, Biddle lived as a retired gentleman at Andalusia, his country estate.

Born and died in Philadelphia. Financier; president of the Bank of the United States.

President of the Second Bank of the United States.

Nicholas Biddle was a scholar, statesman, and financier. He was requested by William Clark to write a narrative of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, which was published in 1814 as "History of the Expedition of Captains Lewis and Clark."

Banker, diplomat, editor, lawyer, and legislator.

Financier.

Nicholas Biddle, banker and president of Second Bank of the United States, was born in Philadelphia. Biddle was elected to the Pennsylvania Senate in 1814, and in 1819 appointed director of the Second Bank of the United States, where he served until the federal charter expired in 1836. Biddle served as president of the United States Bank of Pennsylvania until 1839.

Nicholas Biddle was a litterateur, a scholar, a statesman, and a financier. At the age of ten he entered the University of Pennsylvania and was ready to graduate at thirteen, however, he was not allowed to receive his degree because of his youth. He then entered the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1799, and graduated in 1801 as valedictorian. Although he was devoted to the study of the classics, he selected the law as his profession. He was a contributing writer to the PORT FOLIO, which became the leading literary periodical in America, and became its editor in 1812. In 1810, after the death of Capt. Meriwether Lewis, Gen. William Clark asked Biddle to write the narrative of their expedition into the Louisiana country, which Biddle worked on from 1810 to 1812. He entered the state Senate in 1814 which forced him to give up his post as editor, and turn over the work of carrying through the press his HISTORY OF THE EXPEDITION OF CAPTAINS LEWIS AND CLARK (1814) to Paul Allen. In 1819 Biddle became one of the five government directors of the Bank of the United States, and its president in 1822. He resigned in 1839, and retired to "Andalusia" on the Delaware, which became the scene of an intellectual and social life not common in the United States.

Philadelphia banker.

Philadelphia lawyer, statesman, financier; president of the second Bank of the United States, 1822-1836.

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