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https://cdn.scencyclopedia.org/sce/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/14141849/553px-William_Henry_Trescot2.jpg553899Writer, diplomat, historian. Trescot was born on November 10, 1822, in Charleston, the son of Henry Trescot and Sarah McCrady. Trescot studied at the College of Charleston, graduating in 1841, and then pursued legal studies with Edward McCrady and Mitchell King. He was admitted to the bar in 1843. Through his 1848 marriage to Eliza […]