Tench Coxe

Tench Coxe
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1st Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
In office
September 11, 1789 – June 30, 1792
PresidentGeorge Washington
Delegate to the Continental Congress from Pennsylvania
In office
1788
Personal details
BornMay 22, 1755
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
DiedJuly 17, 1824(1824-07-17) (aged 69)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
Political partyFederalist (1787–1800)
Jeffersonian (1800–1824)
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Tench Coxe (May 22, 1755 – July 17, 1824) was an American political economist and a delegate for Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress in 1788–1789. He wrote under the pseudonym "A Pennsylvanian," and was known to his political enemies as "Mr. Facing Bothways."

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