Charles Edwards Lester

C. Edwards Lester
in 1840
Born	1815
Died	1890
Occupation	Writer
Known for	Abolitionism

Charles Edwards Lester or C. Edwards Lester (1815-90) was an American author and diplomat.

Charles Edwards Lester

Lester was born in Griswold, Connecticut, a descendant of Jonathan Edwards. He was of a roving disposition and traveled widely in the United States and Europe. He was admitted to the bar in Mississippi and later was ordained a minister in the Presbyterian church. In 1840, he addressed antislavery meetings in Massachusetts and was elected a delegate to the London antislavery conference of that year.^[1] He did not return to the United States after the close of the conference but remained in England. His The Glory and Shame of England, published in New York in 1841, criticized England's antislavery professions. In 1842, President Tyler appointed Lester United States Consul at Genoa. He wrote:

• 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)
• My Consulship (two volumes, 1851)
• The Napoleon Dynasty (1852)
• America's Advancement, or the Progress of the United States during their First Century (1878)
• The Mexican Republic (1878)
• a Life of Charles Sumner (1874)

References

1. ^ The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840, Benjamin Robert Haydon, accessed April 2009

• This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.

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Name	Lester, Charles Edwards
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Date of birth	1815
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Date of death	1890
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