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Townsend Harris

Hudson Falls, New York
· 1804-1878
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Townsend Harris was the first United States Consul General to Japan and the founder of the College of the City of New York. Born in Sandy Hill, N.Y., opposite the Village Green, he did more than any other man to keep the doors of Japan open to the outside world and to open the minds of youth.
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