Nicolas+Biddle

=Nicholas Biddle (January 8th, 1786 - Febuary 27th, 1844)=

James Kershaw Biography Catalog History I Mr. Farrell Due: 3/7/11



Nicholas Biddle was born in Philadelphia on January 8th 1786 into a family that origanlly came to America with William Penn. He was a child genuis who at age ten enrolled into University of Pennsylvania but didn't receive a degree for his work because of his age. Soon after he then enrolled as a sophmore in Princeton and graduated at fifteen at which time he decided to study law. He gained a great deal of respect for his country when at nineteen he went to France and experienced the violence of the Napoleonic wars. He served as temporary secratary for James Monroe, the American minister to Great Britian at the time. His return to American in 1807 was followed by his pursuit in law and other liberal arts. Then in 1810 he was elected to the Pennsylvania State Legislature, around the time he started to revise notes from Lewis and Clark expidition. He also married in 1811 to Jane Craig, who he had six children with. Had a huge participation with national banking as well as being part of the state senate during the War of 1812. He soon became president of the bank until 1839 though his bill to re-charter the bank was vetoed and the entire bank ultimately fails in 1841. Biddle died on February 27th 1844.

His Contribution

 * Introduced two seminal bills


 * The first bill established a public schooling system in Pennsylvania


 * The other won the renewal for the Charter for the Bank of the United States

=﻿FUN FACTS=


 * 1) He was interested in Greek literature after his time in Europe
 * 2) Wrote for a literary magazine (The Port Folio) under the pen name Oliver Oldschool
 * 3) He had six brothers
 * 4) In the will of a man who past away (Stephen Girard) he helped establish Girard College