14 Facts About Tench Coxe

Tench Coxe's mother was a daughter of Tench Francis Sr.

Tench Coxe's father came of a family well known in American affairs.

Tench Coxe's great-grandfather was the governor of West Jersey, Daniel Coxe.

Tench Coxe remained in Philadelphia after the British departed in 1778, and some Patriots accused him of having Royalist sympathies and of having served in the British army.

Tench Coxe became a Whig and began a long political career.

Tench Coxe headed a group called the Manufacturing Society of Philadelphia.

Tench Coxe then turned Democratic-Republican, and in the canvass of 1800 published Adams' famous letter to him regarding Pinckney.

In 1804 Tench Coxe organized and led a group at Philadelphia opposed to the election to congress of Michael Leib, and this brought him again into public notice.

Tench Coxe was a writer on political and economic subjects and a champion of tariffs to protect the new nation's growing industries.

Tench Coxe wrote on naval power, on encouragement of arts and manufactures, on the cost, trade, and manufacture of cotton, on the navigation act, and on arts and manufactures in the United States.

Tench Coxe deserves, indeed, to be called the father of the American cotton industry.

Tench Coxe was the first to attempt to bring an Arkwright machine to the United States, the first to urge Southerners to raise cotton.

Tench Coxe acquired vast acreage of Pennsylvania timber and coal lands.

Tench Coxe died July 17,1824, in Philadelphia, where he is interred in Christ Church Burial Ground.