Bigelow, John

Bigelow, John

▪ American diplomat

born Nov. 25, 1817, Bristol, N.Y., U.S.
died Dec. 19, 1911, New York, N.Y.
 American author, journalist, and diplomat who was the discoverer and first editor of Benjamin Franklin's long-lost Autobiography. As U.S. consul in Paris during the American Civil War, he also prevented the delivery of warships constructed in France for the Confederacy.

      Called to the New York bar in 1838, Bigelow was managing editor and, with the poet William Cullen Bryant, part owner of the New York Evening Post (1849–61). In the election campaign of 1856 he was a principal adviser of the Republican Party's first presidential candidate, John Charles Frémont.

      Appointed consul in Paris (1861), Bigelow adroitly gained support for the Union cause, emphasizing ideological considerations to the French liberal press and the trading potential of the Northern industrial states to French businessmen. In France and the Confederate Navy, 1862–1868 (1888), he recounted the episode of the French-built warships, which, if manned by Confederate crews, might have broken the Union blockade of the South. As U.S. minister to France (April 1865–September 1866), he dealt tactfully with the problem of the French-backed Mexican empire of Maximilian.

      While living in Paris, Bigelow found and edited (1868) a manuscript of Franklin's Autobiography; he later edited Franklin's complete works, 10 vol. (1887–88). He also wrote a biography of U.S. presidential candidate Samuel Jones Tilden (1895) and several works on the theology of Emanuel Swedenborg.

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