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About Townsend Harris
Townsend Harris was an American merchant and politician who served as the first United States Consul General to Japan. He negotiated the Harris Treaty between the US and Japan and is credited as the diplomat who first opened Shogunate Japan to foreign trade and culture in the Edo period.
Everything about Townsend Harris →- Occupation
- diplomat
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- October 3, 1804
- Died
- February 25, 1878