Tench Coxe
Tench Coxe | |
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| 1st Assistant Secretary of the Treasury | |
| In office September 11, 1789 – June 30, 1792 | |
| President | George Washington |
| Delegate to the Continental Congress from Pennsylvania | |
| In office 1788 | |
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| Born | May 22, 1755 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, British America |
| Died | July 17, 1824 (aged 69) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Party | Federalist (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."