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About Thomas Barclay
Thomas Barclay was an American merchant and diplomat. He served as the United States' consul in France (1781–1787) and, during his time as a diplomat, negotiated the United States' first treaty, the Moroccan–American Treaty of Friendship, with the sultan of Morocco in 1786. He was the first American diplomat to die in a foreign country in the service of the United States.
Everything about Thomas Barclay →- Occupation
- diplomat, entrepreneur
- Born
- 1728
- Died
- January 19, 1793