Burlingame, Anson

Burlingame, Anson
born Nov. 14, 1820, New Berlin, N.Y., U.S.
died Feb. 23, 1870, St. Petersburg, Russia

U.S. diplomat.

He served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1855–61) and helped found the Republican Party. As U.S. minister to China (1861–67), he implemented a policy of cooperation between China and the Western powers. He so impressed the Chinese government that in 1867 he was appointed imperial envoy to conduct China's international relations. He concluded the Burlingame Treaty, which established reciprocal rights of Chinese and U.S. citizens.

Burlingame, detail of an engraving by Perine & Giles, late 19th century.

Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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▪ American diplomat
born Nov. 14, 1820, New Berlin, N.Y., U.S.
died Feb. 23, 1870, St. Petersburg, Russia

      American diplomatic minister to China (1861–67) who helped assure that country's territorial integrity; he later represented China itself in international negotiations.

      Burlingame entered public life as a Massachusetts state senator (1853–54) and member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1855–61). At first a member of the Know-Nothing Party, he helped found the Republican Party in the mid-1850s. When sent to China by President Abraham Lincoln (Lincoln, Abraham), he found that country in a critical situation, with a weak central government, strong antiforeign feeling, and alien business interests vying for trade privileges. Burlingame fostered a policy of cooperation between the Western powers and China, intended to secure settlement of disputes by diplomacy rather than by force. He also persuaded the Western powers to relinquish claims for special privileges and further territorial cessions in China.

      Burlingame so impressed the Chinese government that in November 1867, upon his resignation from his U.S. post, he was named imperial envoy charged with the conduct of China's international relations. The following February, with two Chinese colleagues and an entourage of 30, he began a tour of Western capitals. The mission made a triumphal progress across the United States, in the course of which Burlingame—a brilliant orator—conveyed an optimistic impression of China's receptivity to Western influence. In Washington, D.C., he negotiated with Secretary of State William H. Seward (Seward, William H) the Burlingame Treaty, guaranteeing most-favoured-nation treatment to each country's residents or visitors in the other nation and putting on record the traditional U.S. policy of respect for China's territorial integrity.

      Burlingame's mission was successful in London but less so on the European continent; he became ill in Russia and died there.

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