Background
Biddle, Nicholas was born on January 8, 1786 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Charles and Hannah (Shepard) Biddle.
Biddle, Nicholas was born on January 8, 1786 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Charles and Hannah (Shepard) Biddle.
Graduate (valedictorian) College of New Jersey (now Princeton), 1801.
Secretary to General John Armstrong (minister to France), 1804. Secretary legation, London, England., 1806. An editor literary magazine Portfolio, 1806-1812.
Admitted to Pennsylvania bar, 1809. Member Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1810-1811, Pennsylvania Senate, 1814-1818. Director 2d Bank of the United States, 1819.
President Bank of the United States, 1823-1836. Leading advocate of rechartering of the bank (became major issue of 1832 presidential election). Became president United States Bank of Pennsylvania (successor to Bank of the United States after President Jackson’s veto of rechartering), 1836-1839.
President of the board of trustees Girard College, also University of Pennsylvania. President agricultural and horticultural societies Author: History of the Expedition of Captains Lewis and Clark, 1814.
Author: History of the Expedition of Captains Lewis and Clark, 1814.
Member Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1810-1811, Pennsylvania Senate, 1814-1818.
Married Jane Craig, October 4, 1811.