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[[Image:SI Bancroft.jpg|thumb|200px|right|George Bancroft]]
'''George Bancroft''' (1800-1891) was an American historian, statesman, and diplomat. He was a leading Democrat and supporter of [[Jacksonian Democracy]]. As Secretary of the Navy, he directed the Navy in the [[Mexican War]] and created the [[United States Naval Academy]] at Annapolis, Maryland, in 1845. He served (1846–49) as U.S. minister to the Court of St. James (that is, ambassador to Great Britain). Bancroft opposed slavery, he abandoned his party during the sectional crisis to support Abraham Lincoln and the Republicans party. He delivered the most important eulogy of Lincoln before Congress following the president's assassination. From 1867 to 1874 he served as the U.S. minister in Berlin.
'''George Bancroft''' (1800-1891) was an American historian, statesman, and diplomat. He was a leading Democrat and supporter of [[Jacksonian Democracy]]. As Secretary of the Navy, he directed the Navy in the [[Mexican War]] and created the [[United States Naval Academy]] at Annapolis, Maryland, in 1845. He served (1846–49) as U.S. minister to the Court of St. James (that is, ambassador to Great Britain). Bancroft opposed slavery, he abandoned his party during the sectional crisis to support Abraham Lincoln and the Republicans party. He delivered the most important eulogy of Lincoln before Congress following the president's assassination. From 1867 to 1874 he served as the U.S. minister in Berlin.