Category:George Bancroft

**George Bancroft**
	American historian, statesman, founder of United States Naval Academy (1800-1891) George Bancroft por John Plumbe, 1846. National Portrait Gallery
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Name in native language	George Bancroft;
Date of birth	3 October 1800; Worcester
Date of death	17 January 1891; Washington, D.C.
Place of burial	Rural Cemetery;
Country of citizenship	United States of America;
Educated at	Harvard University; University of Göttingen; Heidelberg University; Phillips Exeter Academy; Harvard College;
Occupation	diplomat; historian of Modern Age; historian; academic; writer; politician; translator; teacher;
Member of	Hellenic Philological Society of Constantinople (honorary member, 1872–); American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Lincean Academy; Russian Academy of Sciences; Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences; American Antiquarian Society; Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities; American Historical Association (president); Academy of Sciences of Turin (1873–);
Member of political party	Democratic Party;
Position held	United States Secretary of the Navy (1845–1846); ambassador; board member (Smithsonian Institution, 1874–1878); United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom;
Field of work	diplomat; history; writer; diplomacy; politics; translation;
Father	Aaron Bancroft;
Mother	Lucretia Bancroft (Chandler);
Sibling	Eliza Bancroft;
Spouse	Elizabeth Davis Bancroft;
Work location	Göttingen; Berlin;
Award received	Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order; Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences;
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	Q741482; ISNI: 0000000108894019; VIAF ID: 39386684; GND ID: 118656996; Library of Congress authority ID: n50036519; Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 119927186; IdRef ID: 028004388; Libraries Australia ID: 35013036; NL CR AUT ID: xx0319288; National Library of Israel ID (old): 000014906; National Library of Spain ID: XX1155837; Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID: 070249288; NUKAT ID: n2005012053; U.S. National Archives Identifier: 10582409; PLWABN ID: 9810643301405606; J9U ID: 987007257991205171; NACSIS-CAT author ID: DA03197455; SBN author ID: NAPV131840; Open Library ID: OL158914A
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Forty immortals of Worcester and its county - A brief account of those natives or residents who have accomplished something for their community or for the nation (1920) (14741478606).jpg 2,088 × 3,604; 2.97 MB
Forty immortals of Worcester and its county. A brief account of those natives or residents who have accomplished something for their community or for the nation (1920) (14774117955).jpg 1,628 × 2,822; 1.18 MB
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Letter Jesse Wilkinson to Sec Nav George Bancroft 6 Dec 1845 re composition of the shipyard ordinary "majority are slaves".jpg 1,364 × 2,340; 1.57 MB
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