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Townsend Harris

American diplomat (1804–1878)
Person Human Q610626
Townsend Harris
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Facts

19 properties
Instance of
human
Sex or gender
male[11]
Date of birth
October 3, 1804
Date of death
February 25, 1878
Place of birth
Washington County
Place of death
New York City
Country of citizenship
United States[7]
Ethnic group
Welsh Americans[9]
Occupation
diplomat
Religion or worldview
Anglicanism[10]
Member of political party
Democratic Party[12]
Languages spoken, written or signed
English[16]
Described by source
The Encyclopedia Americana[15]
Family name
Harris[13]
Given name
Townsend[14]
Name in native language
Townsend Harris[17]
Native language
English[8]
Place of burial
Green-Wood Cemetery[6]
Writing language
English[18]
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🔖 Identifiers · 36
ISNI
0000000119498687
VIAF cluster ID
52491637
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n50025855
GND ID
119082039
Arabic Ontology lexical concept ID
151059943
BabelNet ID
00043070n
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
16507385k
CERL Thesaurus ID
cnp01407931
CiNii Research ID
1140845216732468480
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
biography/Townsend-Harris
FAST ID
8570
Find a Grave memorial ID
3356
Show all 36 identifiers +24
Freebase ID
/m/0507v0
Geni profile ID
6000000009982781359
Google News topics ID
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Harper's tag
townsend-harris
IdRef ID
180892304
Interlingual Index ID
i95427
J9U entity ID
987007313986605171
KBR person ID
14295788
NACSIS-CAT author ID
DA00991903
NDL Authority ID
00522417
NLA Trove people ID
852016
National Library of Poland MMS ID
9811559856505606
Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID
134031539
Open Library ID
OL1065763A
Parsifal cluster ID
592056
Pontifical Urbaniana University ID
136388
Prabook ID
730123, 1063898
SBN author ID
SBLV144367
SNAC ARK ID
w6tb1fjn
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10581098
WikiTree person ID
Harris-47090
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
11050851-n
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJrRc7CxmxGRTFmkVRjV4q
Yale LUX ID
person/69d860e7-4b1c-4857-bce1-4ebebc5348dc

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🔗 Connections
Founded entities 3
City College of New York, City University of New York, Embassy of the United States, Tokyo
Country of citizenship 1
United States
Family name 1
Harris
Instance of 1
human
Languages spoken, written or signed 1
English
Member of political party 1
Democratic Party
Native language 1
English
Occupation 1
diplomat
Place of birth 1
Washington County
Place of burial 1
Green-Wood Cemetery
Place of death 1
New York City
Religion or worldview 1
Anglicanism
Sex or gender 1
male
Writing language 1
English
← Signatory 1
Treaty of Amity and Commerce
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Summary

Born in Washington County[1], he… he was born on October 3, 1804[2]. He died in New York City[3]. He died on February 25, 1878[4]. He worked as a diplomat[5].

FAQs

Where was Townsend Harris born?

Townsend Harris's place of birth was Washington County[1].

Where did Townsend Harris die?

Townsend Harris passed away in New York City[3].

What did Townsend Harris do for work?

Townsend Harris worked as diplomat[5].

Related Entities

New York City United States

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  18. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 10w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → townsend-harris
    "Created claim: Harper's tag: townsend-harris, Matched to townsend harris (#289971877) in Harper'…"
  2. 11w ago · Mahirtwofivesix · 2026-08-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Arabic Ontology lexical concept ID → 151059943
    "added/modified IDs mapped to WordNet 3.1"
  3. 17w ago · Epìdosis · 2026-07-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Pontifical Urbaniana University ID → 136388
    "Created claim: Pontifical Urbaniana University ID: 136388, batch #260429"
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