Condy Raguet (January 28, 1784 – March 22, 1842) was the first chargé d'affaires from the United States to Brazil and a noted politician and free trade advocate from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Of French descent, Raguet was educated at the University of Pennsylvania. After graduating he began studying law but had to give his studies up after the death of his father. He briefly worked as supercargo for a counting house, before going into business for himself.
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- Condy Raguet (January 28, 1784 – March 22, 1842) was the first chargé d'affaires from the United States to Brazil and a noted politician and free trade advocate from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Of French descent, Raguet was educated at the University of Pennsylvania. After graduating he began studying law but had to give his studies up after the death of his father. He briefly worked as supercargo for a counting house, before going into business for himself. Over the next decade he worked as manager or president for several companies, the most notable being the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society. In 1816 Raguet had read about the growth of savings banks in Great Britain and liked the idea. He approached other Philadelphia business associates and together created the Society, the first savings bank in the United States. As a member of the Federalist Party Raguet was elected into the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1815 and into the Pennsylvania State Senate in 1818. In 1821 President James Monroe made Raguet consul to Brazil. After Brazil became independent President John Quincy Adams made Raguet the chargé d'Affaires to Brazil. As chargé d'affaires, Raguet became increasingly frustrated with Brazil's inactivity on complaints by the United States of its citizens being forced to work on Brazilian warships against their will. Raguet communications with the Brazilian government became increasingly forceful and undiplomatic and was so frustrated with the Brazilian government he once wrote to the U.S. State Department that he was so frustrated he could hardly consider the Brazilians a civilized people. Despite urges from Washington, D.C. to improve his approach to Brazil, Raguet abruptly left Brazil after an incident where the Brazilian Navy seized a former U.S. warship. John Quincy Adams would later write that, despite having good intentions, Raguet's "rashness and intemperance" nearly "brought this country and Brazil to the very verge of war. " After Adams rejected any possibility of Raguet returning to diplomatic work, Raguet returned to business in Philadelphia. Having his economic views shaped by the Panic of 1819, he became one of the most prominent advocates for free trade in the United States. He edited numerous journals relating to free trade and wrote and published works on the subject. The most notable was On Currency and Banking. Published in 1839, Samuel J. Tilden called it "the best treatise on banking ever published in the country".
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- Condy Raguet (January 28, 1784 – March 22, 1842) was the first chargé d'affaires from the United States to Brazil and a noted politician and free trade advocate from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Of French descent, Raguet was educated at the University of Pennsylvania. After graduating he began studying law but had to give his studies up after the death of his father. He briefly worked as supercargo for a counting house, before going into business for himself.
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