Back جيمس ويلكنسون (ضابط) Arabic James Wilkinson (Politiker, 1757) German James Wilkinson Esperanto James Wilkinson Spanish James Wilkinson Finnish James Wilkinson French ג'יימס וילקינסון HE James Wilkinson (politico) Italian 제임스 윌킨슨 Korean James Wilkinson Dutch
James Wilkinson | |
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 Portrait of Wilkinson by Charles Willson Peale, 1797 | |
| 6th and 9th Senior Officer of the United States Army | |
| In office June 15, 1800 – January 27, 1812 | |
| President | John Adams Thomas Jefferson James Madison |
| Preceded by | Alexander Hamilton |
| Succeeded by | Henry Dearborn |
| In office December 15, 1796 – July 13, 1798 | |
| President | George Washington John Adams |
| Preceded by | Anthony Wayne |
| Succeeded by | George Washington |
| 1st Governor of Louisiana Territory | |
| In office July 4, 1805 – March 3, 1807 | |
| President | Thomas Jefferson |
| Preceded by | William Henry Harrison (as Governor of the District of Louisiana) |
| Succeeded by | Meriwether Lewis |
| United States Envoy to Mexico | |
| In office 1816–1825 | |
| President | James Madison James Monroe John Quincy Adams |
| Preceded by | John H. Robinson (as special diplomatic agent) |
| Succeeded by | Joel Roberts Poinsett (as U.S. Minister) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | March 24, 1757 Charles County, Province of Maryland, British America |
| Died | December 28, 1825 (aged 68) Mexico City, Mexican Republic |
| Resting place | Church of San Miguel Arcángel, Mexico City, Mexico |
| Political party | Democratic-Republican[1] |
| Spouses | |
| Children | 6 |
| Signature |  |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  United States of America |
| Branch/service | Continental Army United States Army |
| Rank | Brigadier General |
| Battles/wars | |
James Wilkinson (March 24, 1757 – December 28, 1825) was an American army officer and politician who was associated with multiple scandals and controversies during his life, including the Burr conspiracy.[2]
He served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, but he was twice compelled to resign. He was twice the Senior Officer of the U.S. Army; was appointed to be the first governor in the newly acquired western lands of the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, later organized by the United States Congress and the third President, Thomas Jefferson as the Louisiana Territory in 1804–1812, west of the Mississippi River;[3] and commanded two unsuccessful military invasion campaigns in the St. Lawrence River valley theater in Canada during the War of 1812.
He died while seeking to serve as an envoy diplomat in Mexico City, the capital of the newly declared independent Mexico.
Four decades later in 1854, following extensive archival research in the Royal Spanish archives in the capital of Madrid, an American historian from Louisiana, Charles Gayarré, found documents which exposed Gen. Wilkinson as having been a highly paid foreign agent and spy in the service of the old Kingdom of Spain and its Spanish Empire.[4] In the years since Gayarré's research became public, Wilkinson has been savagely condemned by subsequent American academic historians and politicians. 26th President Theodore Roosevelt claimed "[I]n all our history, there is no more despicable character."[5]
- ^ Montgomery, M.R. (2000). Jefferson and the Gun-Men: How the West Was Almost Lost. New York, NY: Random House. p. 284. ISBN 978-0-609-80710-1.
- ^ Linklater, Andro (2009). An Artist in Treason: The Extraordinary Double Life of General James Wilkinson. Walker Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-8027-1720-7.
- ^ Bell, William Gardner (2005). "James Wilkinson". Commanding Generals and Chiefs of Staff: Portraits and Biographical Sketches. United States Army Center of Military History. pp. 64–65. Archived from the original on 2021-04-10. Retrieved 2010-06-14.
- ^ "The Man Who Double-Crossed The Founders". Morning Edition. NPR. Retrieved 2017-04-04.
- ^ Stewart, David O. (2011). American Emperor. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. p. 299. ISBN 978-1-4391-5718-3.
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