Townsend Harris
Townsend Harris (born in 1804, died in 1878) was a famous merchant of New York which also occupied of the political offices. He was thus the first American general consul with the Japan, and he constibua with the negotiations in favor of the Harris Treaty between the the United States and his host country. He has thus the reputation to be the first diplomat with being parvenu to open the Japanese empire with a culture and a trade foreigners. He is today still an emblematic figure with the Japan.
In 1846, Harris off arrived at the head of the New York City Board Education which it chaired until in 1848. It is for this period that it created off the City College New York.
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