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Trist, Nicholas Philip

lawyer, educator, was born June 2, 1800, in Charlottesville, Va. He was first clerk in the United States treasury department in 1828, private secretary to President Jackson in 1829, and United States consul at Havana in 1834-36. He became assistant secretary of state in 1845, and in 1848 was sent as peace commissioner to Mexico, where he negotiated and signed the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. In 1870 he was appointed postmaster at Alexandria, Va.

He translated a treatise on Milch Cows from the French of M. F. Guenon. He died Feb. 11, 1874, in Alexandria, Va.