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an American lawyer, legislator, and diplomat, born in New Berlin , Chenango County , New York . In 1823 his parents (Joel Burlingame and Freelove Angell) took him to Ohio , and about ten years afterwards to Michigan . Between 1838 and 1841 he studied at the Detroit branch of the University Of Michigan , and in 1846 graduated from Harvard Law School . On June 3 , 1847 he married Jane Cornelia Livermore. They had sons Edward Livermore Burlingame (born 1848) and Walter Angell Burlingame (b. 1852), as well as a daughter Gertrude Burlingame (b. 1856). He practised law in Boston , and won a wide reputation by his speeches for the Free Soil Party in 1848 . He was a member of the Massachusetts constitutional convention in 1853 , of the state senate from 1853 to 1854 , and of the United States House Of Representatives from 1855 to 1861 , being elected for the first term as a Know Nothing and afterwards as a member of the new Republican Party , which he helped to organize in Massachusetts. On June 14 , 1861 Abraham Lincoln appointed Burlingame as minister to China . On November 16 , 1867 he was appointed envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to head a Chinese diplomatic mission to the United States and the principal European nations. The mission, which included two Chinese ministers, an English and a French secretary, six students from Peking, and a considerable retinue, arrived in the United States in March 1868 . On July 28 1868 it concluded at Washington, D.C. a series of articles, supplementary to the Reed Treaty of 1858 , and later known as the Burlingame Treaty . Burlingame's speeches did much to awaken interest in, and engender a more intelligent appreciation of, China's attitude toward the outside world. Burlingame died suddenly at Saint Petersburg on the February 23 1870 . Burlingame, California and Burlingame, Kansas are both named after Anson Burlingame. REFERENCES |
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