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About Cornelius P. Van Ness
Cornelius Peter Van Ness was an American politician and diplomat who served as the tenth governor of Vermont from 1823 to 1826 and Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Kingdom of Spain from 1829 to 1836. Van Ness was a Democratic-Republican and later a Democrat.
Everything about Cornelius P. Van Ness →- Occupation
- lawyer, diplomat, politician, judge
- Position held
- Governor of Vermont, member of the Vermont House of Representatives, ambassador, United States Ambassador to Spain
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- January 26, 1782
- Died
- December 15, 1852