Courtland Cushing was an American lawyer, judge, and diplomat.
14 Facts About Courtland Cushing
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Courtland Cushing was the third child of Brigadier General Daniel Lewis Cushing and his second wife, Margaret Cushing, who married in New York City in 1801.
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Courtland Cushing's siblings included William Van Horne Cushing; Anna Cushing, the wife of Washington Lawrence; Hannah Lewis Cushing, the wife of John McFadden Gallagher; and Clara Corwin Cushing, the wife of John W Taylor.
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Courtland Cushing's father was previously married to Zeruiah Chamberlain, daughter of Job Chamberlain, with whom he had five children.
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Courtland Cushing's father was a New York merchant until 1806 when he moved near Sackets Harbor in Jefferson County, New York, and laid out a town, naming it Huron.
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Courtland Cushing graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, in 1829.
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Courtland Cushing was admitted to the bar in Warren County, Ohio.
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On July 1,1841, President John Tyler, a Whig, nominated Courtland Cushing to replace John Pettit as the United States Attorney for the District of Indiana.
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In 1844, the Indiana Senate elected Cushing to serve for a term of seven years "from and after the eighteenth day of December, AD, 1844" as President Judge of the third Circuit Court to succeed Judge Miles C Eggleston.
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In 1852, Courtland Cushing wrote to then US Secretary of State Daniel Webster in Washington, including to write that "two 18 pound balls passed through several rooms of my house" in Guayaquil while Flores attacked the city.
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Also while in office, Courtland Cushing "slapped in a claim for $40,000 US dollars against the Republic of Ecuador as compensation to the owners and crew of the ship" that was pirated on its way to the Galapagos Islands.
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Courtland Cushing's mission was terminated by note on October 12,1853.
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Courtland Cushing was succeeded by former Wisconsin State Senator Philo White, who was appointed by Democratic President Franklin Pierce.
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Courtland Cushing died on May 24,1856, on the Isthmus of Panama and was buried at Puntas Arenas in Nicaragua.