John Bigelow
American diplomat, lawyer and politician (1817-1911) · United States · On the map · Politicians · Died at 94
John Bigelow Sr. was an American lawyer, diplomat, and historian who edited the complete works of Benjamin Franklin and the first autobiography of Franklin taken from Franklin's previously lost original manuscript.
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He played a central role in the founding of the New York Public Library in 1895 and served as the first president of the New York Law School Board of Trustees. During the American Civil War, "[a]s consul to Paris, then as minister to France, he did more than any other man to ward off dreaded French intervention on behalf of the Confederacy...."
