Charles Edwards Lester or C. Edwards Lester (c. 1815–1890) was an American author and diplomat.
Lester was born in
Griswold, Connecticut, a descendant of
Jonathan Edwards Jonathan Edwards may refer to:
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. He was of a roving disposition and traveled widely in the United States and Europe. He was admitted to the
bar
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in
Mississippi and later was ordained a minister in the
Presbyterian church
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.
In 1840, he addressed antislavery meetings in
Massachusetts and was elected a delegate to the London antislavery conference of that year.
[The Anti-Slavery Society Convention]
, 1840, Benjamin Robert Haydon, accessed April 2009 He remained in England after the close of the conference. His ''The Glory and Shame of England'', published in New York in 1841, criticized England's antislavery professions. In 1842,
President Tyler
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appointed Lester United States Consul at
Genoa.
Books
* ''The Life of Vespucius'' (1845; new edition, 1905)
* ''The Artist, The Merchant, and the Statesman of the age of the
Medici and of Our own Times'' (two volumes, 1845)
* Sam Houston and His Republic (1846)
* ''The Artists of America : a series of biographical sketches of American Artists'' (1846)
* ''My Consulship'' (two volumes, 1851)
[A Dictionary of Books Relating to America]
accessed October 2015
* ''The Napoleon Dynasty'' (1852)
* ''The Life of Sam Houston'' (1855)
* ''Passages from the History of the United States'' (1866)
* ‘’Our First Hundred Years’’ (1874)
* ''America's Advancement, or the Progress of the United States during their First Century'' (1875)
* ''The Mexican Republic'' (1878)
* a ''Life of
Charles Sumner'' (1874)
* ''Life and character of
Peter Cooper'' (1883)
Gallery
C Edwards Lester.jpg, Charles Edwards Lester C. 1840
File:Lester Battle Ground of San Jacinto 1846 UTA.jpg, Lester's 1846 map, ''Battle Ground of San Jacinto''
References
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19th-century American historians
19th-century American male writers
American biographers
People from Griswold, Connecticut
1810s births
1890 deaths
19th-century American lawyers
American male non-fiction writers
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