Background
Everett, Alexander Hill was born on March 19, 1790 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Review Oliver Everett and Lucy (Hill) Everett.
Everett, Alexander Hill was born on March 19, 1790 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Review Oliver Everett and Lucy (Hill) Everett.
Graduated from Harvard, 1806.
Secretary to John Quincy Adams (minister to Russia), 1809-1811. Secretary American legation The Hague, 1815-1816, charge d’affaires, 1818-1824. United States minister to Spain, 1825-1829.
Held controlling interest in North American Review, 1830, editor, 1830-1835. Member Massachusetts Legislature. President Jefferson College, Louisiana.
Commissioner to China, 1845-1847. Author: Europe, or a General Survey of the Political Situation of the Principal Powers with Conjectures on their Future Prospects, 1822. New Ideas on Population, 1822.
America, or a General Sur vey of the Political Situation of the Several Powers of the Western Continent with Conjectures on their Future Prospects, 1827.
Member Massachusetts Legislature.
Married Lucretia Peabody, September 1817.