Bigelow, John

Life Span
to
    Full name
    John Bigelow
    Place of Birth
    Burial Place
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Free State
    No. of Spouses
    1
    No. of Children
    8
    Family
    Asa Bigelow (father), Lucy Isham (mother), Jane Poultney (wife, 1850)
    Education
    Other
    Other Education
    Washington College, CT ; Union College, NY
    Occupation
    Diplomat
    Attorney or Judge
    Journalist
    Writer or Artist
    Relation to Slavery
    White non-slaveholder
    Political Parties
    Democratic
    Free Soil
    Republican
    Other Affiliations
    Abolitionists (Anti-Slavery Society)
    Government
    Lincoln Administration (1861-65)
    Johnson Administration (1865-69)
    Diplomat

    John Bigelow (American National Bibliography)

    Scholarship
    The renewal of the slavery issue in the mid-1850s led Bigelow, [William Cullen] Bryant, and the Evening Post to cast their lot with the new Republican party. In 1856 Bigelow wrote a campaign biography for John C. Frémont, the party's first presidential nominee. As a reward for his constant labors for the Post, Bigelow began an eighteen-month European vacation in 1858 that provided him with contacts among liberal intellectuals and politicians who proved valuable to his later diplomatic career.
    Phyllis F. Field, "Bigelow, John," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/04/04-00100.html.
    How to Cite This Page: "Bigelow, John," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/34549.