Nicholas Philip Trist was a diplomat who served
as American consul to Cuba and helped to negotiate the end of the Mexican War (1846–1848). Born in
Charlottesville to a family with a
long acquaintance with Thomas
Jefferson, Trist attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point without
taking a degree and soon after married Jefferson's granddaughter, Virginia Jefferson
Randolph. He served as clerk to the University
of. . .
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