Politics
He was recommended for the post of Ambassador to Holland in 1839, but politics prevented him from securing the post.
In 1846 he would be chosen as delegate from New York city to the State Convention of New York to revise the Constitution. He was responsible for the introduction and the adoption of a Conciliation Court at the convention.
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics when you read it. Many of the so-called politically enlisted writers change their politics frequently.... Perhaps it can be respected as a form of the pursuit of happiness.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“I played by the rules of politics as I found them.”
—Richard M. Nixon (1913–1995)
“Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.”
—G.M. (George Macaulay)