Cushing, CALEB, American statesman, born in Salisbury, Massachusetts, in 1800, was admitted to the bar in 1821, sat in the state legislature and senate, and was elected to congress in 1835–43. He arranged the first treaty between China and the United States in 1844; raised and commanded a regiment in the war with Mexico; and was United
States attorney-general in 1853–57, counsel for the United States at the Geneva Conference in 1872, and minister to Spain in 1874–77. He died in 1879.