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About Silas Deane
Silas Deane was an American Founding Father, merchant, politician, and diplomat, and a supporter of American independence. Deane served as a delegate to the Continental Congress, where he signed the Continental Association, and then became the first foreign diplomat from the United States to France, where he helped negotiate the 1778 Treaty of Alliance that allied France with the United States during the American Revolutionary War.
Everything about Silas Deane →- Occupation
- lawyer, diplomat, politician, writer
- Position held
- Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives, ambassador, Delegate to the Continental Congress
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- December 24, 1737, 1737
- Died
- September 23, 1789, 1789