Nicholas Biddle
Nicholas Biddle
Photo credit:
from The Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle Dealing with National Affairs, 1807--1844 (see Bibliography)
Sessions
| Sessions | Office | Position | District | Party |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1810-1811 | Representative | Federalist | ||
| Counties | Philadelphia City | |||
Biography
01/08/1786 - 02/27/1844
BIDDLE, Nicholas, a Representative from Philadelphia City; born, January 8, 1786 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; attended, the University of Pennsylvania, 1796; graduated, Princeton University, 1801; private secretary to General John Armstrong, U.S. Ambassador to France (1804); private secretary to (President) James Monroe, Minister to the United Kingdom (1805-1807); lawyer (1807-1844); associate editor, Port Folio (1811-1823); lawyer (1807-1833); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Federalist for the 1810-1811 term; elected, Pennsylvania State Senate (1814-1817, resigned); unsuccessful campaign, United States Congress (1818, 1820); presidential appointee, federal director, Bank of the United States (1819-1823); appointed, president, Second Bank of the United States (1823-1833); died, February 27, 1844 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Saint Peter’s Episcopal Churchyard, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.
Archival Collections
Nicholas Biddle papers (2039), Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Lewis, M. & Clark, W. History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark. Edited by Nicholas Biddle, Bradford and Inskeep, 1814.
Biddle, Nicholas. The Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle Dealing with National Affairs, 1809-1844. Edited by Reginald C. McGrane, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919.
Kahan, Paul. The Bank War: Andrew Jackson, Nicholas Biddle, and the Fight for American Finance. Yardly, Pa.: Westholme, 2016.
Pennsylvania Senate Historical Biography – Nicholas Biddle