Tench Coxe

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For other men with this name, see Tench Coxe (disambiguation).

Tench Coxe (May 22, 1755– July 17, 1824) was an American political economist and a delegate for Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress in 1788-1789. He was initially a Loyalist during the American Revolution when he left the Pennsylvania Militia in 1776 and joined the British Army under Howe in 1777. Coxe was later arrested, paroled, and joined the patriot cause and supported the new government. A proponent of industrialization during the early years of the United States, he co-authored the famous Report on Manufactures (1791) with Alexander Hamilton and provided much of the statistical data. He had been appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury on September 11, 1789 under Alexander Hamilton when Hamilton was Secretary of the Treasury. Coxe also headed a group called the Manufacturing Society of Philadelphia. He was appointed revenue commissioner by President Washington on June 30, 1792, and served until removed by President Adams. He was appointed by President Jefferson purveyor of public supplies and served from 1803 to 1812. He was a writer on political and economic subjects and a champion of the use of tariffs to protect the new nation's growing industries.

[edit] Further reading

Jacob Cooke, "Tench Coxe and the Early Republic"; 1978, Univ of North Carolina Press, ISBN 0-8078-1308-7.
Jacob E. Cooke, "Tench Coxe, Alexander Hamilton, and the Encouragement of American Manufactures," The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Ser., Vol. 32, No. 3 (July 1975), pp. 369-392.