Sargent, Nathan
lawyer, journalist, jurist, author, was born May 5, 1794, in Pultney, Vt. In 1830 he went to Philadelphia and established a whig newspaper. He subsequently became the Washington correspondent of the United States Gazette of Philadelphia. He was register of the treasury from 1851 to 1853; and in 1861 was appointed commissioner of customs, and held the position until 1871. At the time of his death he was president of the Washington reform school, and his last literary labor was the preparation of a work entitled Public Men and Events.
He also wrote Life of Henry Clay. He died Feb. 2, 1875, in Washington, D. C.