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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 469059, member: 4381&quot;]Washington asked Lafayette to run with him on the first election and Lafayette, who had spent time with Washington in this period at Mnt Vernon, and who qualified as citizen under NUMEROUS states which granted naturalizations to loyalist soldiers and even Hessian troops who defected to the American cause.&nbsp; Lafayette refused and also turned down requests for naturalizations under New York among other states and returned to France...but continued to be directly involved in American politics and the issue of emancipation in the US.</p><p><br /></p><p>If Lafayette accepted he&#039;s had been considered a citizen under state law prior to ratification, as was Hamilton and eligible under the current constitution to have run for any office, including the Presidency.</p><p><br /></p><p>The founding fathers pleaded with this him but he refused...which was a bad choice on his part because he ended up spending several years as a political&nbsp; prisoner in Europe which Washington again tried to repair, but failed to acquire his freedom.&nbsp; Lafayette and Washington were so bound together that Lafayette named with son &quot;George Washington&quot; Lafayette.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know nothing of the St Claire situation and can make no comment.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ruben[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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