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No treaty by ANY president is valid without the consent of the Legislature.
Secretary of State James Buchanan negotiated the treaty that set the boundary of the Oregon territory.
By strict as well as common constitutional interpretation (and practice) he does not have that power.Normally the "State Department" will negotiate a treaty, and then the legislative body will approve it; the President can veto it but that veto can be over-ridden by congressional vote.
Pickneys treaty with Spain
In order to resolve the Aroostook War, Daniel Webster and the British ambassador, Lord Alexander Ashburton, had to create a treaty. In this treaty, known as the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, the territory that was fought over was split between Maine and British Canada. The treaty also settled the boundary of the Minnesota territory.
President Washington sent Chief Justice John Jay to London to negotiate a treaty with England. Jay was responsible for the negotiating the Treaty of London, also called Jay's Treaty, in 1794.The terms angered many Americans, who thought the British were given more favorable terms than was reasonable, but historians believe it helped avert a second war with England.
Jay's Treaty
George Washington
Woodrow Wilson
No treaty by ANY president is valid without the consent of the Legislature.
The united states involved in the Russo-Japanese war where President Roosevelt helped negotiate peace.
peace treaty
Woodrow Wilson went to Europe to negotiate a settlement treaty after WW I ended,
The president has the Constitutional power to negotiate treaties . It is not clear that a treaty that buys land is within his powers but Jefferson did it anyway and the Senate approved the purchase treaty after much debate.
James Madison was president of the U.S. during the Treaty of Ghent. He served from 1809 to 1817 and the treaty was ratified by the U.S. in 1815.
John Adams affected US history by being one of America's Founding Fathers. He also was the first US vice president and the US's second president after George Washington. Some of his impacts were:1. Wrote resolutions opposing the British Stamp Act; 2. Drafted most of the Massachusetts state constitution; and 3. Helped negotiate the peace treaty, The Treaty of Paris, that finalized the end of the American Revolutionary War.
british general Cornwallis. After the war, George Washington wanted to retire and live alone.. but was soon elected president sooon after the treaty was signed