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Nicholas Biddle (1786–1844)
Biddle, Nicholas. A noted American financier and writer; born in Philadelphia, Jan. 8, 1786; died there, Feb. 27, 1844. He was president of the United States Bank, 1823–39, during Jackson’s war against its being the depository of the government moneys, and the later speculations which ruined it. Besides miscellaneous writings, he published a ‘Commercial Digest,’ and ‘History of the Expedition under Lewis and Clarke to the Pacific Ocean.’