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Albert Gallatin
Swiss and American politician, diplomat and scholar (1761-1849)
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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 29 January 1761, 1761
- Died
- 12 August 1849, 1849
- Place of birth
- Geneva
- Place of death
- Astoria
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Gallatin
- Father
- Jean Gallatin
- Field of work
- Indigenous languages of the Americas, diplomacy, politics, ethnology, linguistics
- Occupation
- politician, diplomat, peace activist, lawyer, linguist, writer, ethnologist, member of parliament
- Position held
- United States senator, United States representative, United States Secretary of the Treasury, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom, United States Ambassador to France, senator
- Citizenship
- Republic of Geneva, United States
- Native language
- French
- Religion
- reformed
- birth name
- Abraham Alfonse Albert de Gallatin
- described by source
- Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Library of the World's Best Literature, Temps, espaces et histoires. Monuments et héritage raciste et colonial dans l'espace public genevois : état des lieux historique, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The New Student's Reference Work, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)
- different from
- Albert G. Brown
- educated at
- University of Geneva
- member of
- American Antiquarian Society
- member of political party
- Democratic-Republican Party
- name in native language
- Albert Gallatin
- owner of
- Friendship Hill
- place of burial
- Trinity Church Cemetery
- residence
- Machias, Geneva, Boston, Friendship Hill, Manhattan
- topic's main category
- Category:Albert Gallatin
- work location
- Washington, D.C., Boston, New York City
- writing language
- English
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