Joel Barlow, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Joel Barlow

American diplomat

Date of Birth: 24-Mar-1754

Place of Birth: Redding, Connecticut, United States

Date of Death: 26-Dec-1812

Profession: writer, poet, politician, diplomat

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Joel Barlow (March 24, 1754 – December 26, 1812) was an American poet and diplomat, and French politician.
In politics, he supported the French Revolution and was an ardent Jeffersonian republican. He worked as an agent for American speculator William Duer to set up the Scioto Company in Paris in 1788, and to sell worthless deeds to land in the Northwest Territory which it did not own.
Scholars believe that he did not know the transactions were fraudulent.
He stayed in Paris, becoming involved in the French Revolution.
He was elected to the Assembly and given French citizenship in 1792. In his own time, Barlow was known especially for the epic poem Vision of Columbus (1807), though modern readers rank The Hasty-Pudding (1793) more highly.
As American consul at Algiers, he helped draft the Treaty of Tripoli in 1796, to end the attacks of Barbary pirates of North Africa city states.
He also served as US Minister to France, from 1811 to his death on December 26, 1812 in Zarnowiec, Poland.



Description	American engineer and inventor widely credited with developing a commercially successful steamboat called Clermont.
Date of birth/death	November 14, 1765	February 24, 1815
Location of birth/death	Little Britain, Pennsylvania	New York City
Work period	1793–
Authority control	: Q192496 VIAF: 41858391 ISNI: 0000 0000 6643 2704 ULAN: 500008343 LCCN: n50016797 Open Library: OL512667A WorldCat