1. Governeur Morris
... appointed U.S. minister to France, but he returned to the U.S. in 1799. In 1800, he accepted an interim appointment of 3 years as US senator from New York. He was an extreme Federalist partisan and one of President Thomas Jefferson's most severe critics. Morris retired in 1803, he continued his numerous business activities. He was very critical of the foreign policy pursued by ... Jefferson and James Madison and their alleged hospitality to Great Britain. He believed that the War of 1812 was "unjust, unwise, mismanaged," he supported the disastrous Hartford Convention of 1814 as a resul...
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