Louis McLane was appointed Secretary of State by President Andrew Jackson on May 29, 1833. McLane entered duty on the same day and left the position on June 30, 1834. He was an able administrator who eventually clashed with President Jackson over foreign policy.
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Louis McLane (May 28, 1786 – October 7, 1857) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware, and Baltimore, Maryland. He was a veteran of the War of 1812 , a member of the Federalist Party and later the Democratic Party .
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At the time President Jackson appointed Louis McLane (1786 - 1857) Secretary of the Treasury in 1831, the President was increasingly inclined to oppose the Second Bank of the United States. Though McLane's views on finance did not agree with those of the President, Jackson respected McLane and in making the appointment overlooked this potential conflict. During thirteen years in Congress (1816 ...
Louis McLane (1831–1833) Louis McLane was born May 28, 1786, in Smyrna, Delaware. He joined the U.S. Navy, serving for one year on the U.S.S. Philadelphia (beginning in 1798) before entering Newark College (1799). He left school to study law privately and was admitted to the Delaware bar in 1807.
McLANE, Louis, (father of Robert Milligan McLane), a Representative and a Senator from Delaware; born in Smyrna, Del., May 28, 1786; attended private schools; entered the United States Navy in 1798 as a midshipman on the U.S.S. Philadelphia and served one year; attended Newark College; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1807 and commenced practice in Smyrna; served in the War of 1812; elected ...
Other articles where Louis McLane is discussed: The Rise of Andrew Jackson: The Bank Veto: …new secretary of the treasury, Louis McLane, who was positively disposed to the BUS, as was the new secretary of state, Edward Livingston. McLane even took the lead in trying to satisfy Jackson’s objections to the BUS with a compromise he worked out with Nicholas Biddle. Apprehensive that the bank ...
United States Representative from Delaware, 1817-1827; United States Senator from Delaware, 1827-1829; United States Minister to Great Britain, 1829-1831; Secretary of the Treasury under President Jackson, 1831-1833; Secretary of State under President Jackson, 1833-1834; again Minister to Great Britain, 1845-1846.
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