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He was born on February 6, 1793 in Fauquier County, Virginia, United States, the grandson of William S. Pickett, and the son of John and Elizabeth (Chamberlayne) Pickett. Some three years after his birth the family moved to Mason County.
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He was born on February 6, 1793 in Fauquier County, Virginia, United States, the grandson of William S. Pickett, and the son of John and Elizabeth (Chamberlayne) Pickett. Some three years after his birth the family moved to Mason County.
There is no information about his education.
He was appointed on August 14, 1813, to be third lieutenant in the 2nd United States Artillery in Ohio. He left the service in 1815 at the end of the war with Great Britain only to reenter it June 16, 1818, as captain and assistant deputy-quartermaster-general. He served until June 1821.
Meanwhile he had tried his hand at editing the Eagle, at Maysville, had read law. In 1822 he sat in the state legislature as his father had done before him. He achieved the reputation of being one of the foremost scholars of his state. After three years as secretary of state of Kentucky (1825 - 28), he was ready for the first of a series of federal appointments.
His appointment, on June 9, 1829, to be secretary of legation in Colombia, was the beginning of a diplomatic career of some distinction. He traveled about Colombia, reporting to the American minister at Bogot his fears of British commercial aggression and his doubts whether even the sway of Spain could have been more tyrannical than the last five years of republican rule.
Returning to the United States, he served for three months in 1835 as superintendent of the United States Patent Office and in January 1836 was appointed fourth auditor of the Treasury Department. Two years later (June 1838) he resumed his diplomatic career.
As charge d'affaires of the United States, he was authorized to conclude treaties of commerce with the Peru-Bolivian Confederation and with the Republic of Ecuador, to which he was appointed special diplomatic agent. By June 13 of the next year, a treaty of peace, friendship, navigation, and commerce with Ecuador, with its "most-favored nation" clause and its definitions of neutral rights in wartime, was ready for signature. It was proclaimed in September 1842.
With Peru, Pickett was somewhat less successful. After substantial concessions by the United States, a claims convention providing for the adjustment of the claims of citizens of the United States against Peru was signed on March 17, 1841, but it was not proclaimed until February 21, 1844. It called for a total payment by Peru of $300, 000, to be met in ten annual instalments. Pickett found the youthful and tumultuous Peruvian republic no easy country with which to deal, for it was constantly on the verge of insurrection or involved in civil war; and when he returned to the United States late in 1844, he left three claimants contending for the presidency of the nation.
After the close of his diplomatic career he settled in Washington where for some years (c. 1848 - 53) he edited the Daily Globe. He was also concerned in a short-lived magazine venture, the National Monument, suspended in 1851 for lack of funds. After this time, however, he lived in relative obscurity until his death, in Washington, in 1872.
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On October 6, 1818, had married Ellen Desha, daughter of Gov. Joseph Desha of Kentucky. Two sons were born to this marriage.
