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Though Bancroft had expressed an interest in becoming the U.S. minister to Prussia, President James K. Polk, in 1841, tapped Bancroft to become his secretary of the Navy, a post Bancroft held from 1845 to 1846. During that time, Bancroft would establish the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland.
George Bancroft (October 3, 1800 – January 17, 1891) was an American historian, statesman and Democratic politician who was prominent in promoting secondary education both in his home state of Massachusetts and at the national and international levels.
In 1845, George Bancroft became Secretary of the Navy. Realizing that Bancroft was a scholar and an experienced educator,’ Chauvenet presented him with a copy of the educational reform plan that Secretary Mason had rejected.
Lived: 1800-91. Nationality: American. Profession (s): Historian, politician, diplomat. Books: History of the United States of America, from the Discovery of the American Continent (1854). Perspective: Whig. George Bancroft was a 19th-century American scholar, historian and political figure.
23 de may. de 2018 · George Bancroft (1800-1891) was an eminent American historian and a diplomat and politician. He also founded the U.S. Naval Academy. George Bancroft was born in Worcester, Mass., on Oct. 3, 1800. His father was a Unitarian minister. At 17 George went from Harvard to the University of Göttingen, Germany, where he received his doctorate in 1820.
Bancroft entró en la política en 1837, cuando fue nombrado Recaudador de Aduanas del Puerto de Boston por Martin Van Buren. En 1844, fue el candidato demócrata para la gobernación de Massachusetts, pero perdió la elección. Entre 1845 y 1846, formó parte del gabinete de James K. Polk como Secretario de la Armada.
Bancroft was minister to Great Britain (1846–49) and minister to Germany (1867–74). His ten-volume History was revised in 1876 to six volumes. A final revision (6 vols., 1883–85) includes the History of the Formation of the Constitution (1882).
