Chosen as a delegate to the Arkansas secession convention, Boudinot served as a colonel in the Confederate States Army, and was elected as an Arkansas Territory representative in the Confederate Congress.

In November 1777, the New Jersey legislature named Boudinot as one of their delegates to the Second Continental Congress.

In 1802 a court order awarded half the township to one of his Miami Company investors, Elias Boudinot.

Realizing that the practice of adding one star per state could quickly clutter the coin's design, U. S. Mint Director Elias Boudinot ordered a design alteration, to feature just 13 stars ( for the original Thirteen Colonies ).

Watie had killed James Foreman, one of the attackers of Major Ridge, Watie's uncle, who was killed in 1839 together with his son John Ridge and brother Elias Boudinot.

Elias Boudinot, as one of these commissaries, was competing with other agents seeking to gather supplies for George Washington's army at Valley Forge.

In about 1879, Elias C. Boudinot began a campaign, perhaps at the behest of one of his clients, the M-K-T Railroad, to open the land " unoccupied by any Indian " to settlement by non-Indians.

Beginning with just one location on Boudinot Avenue in the Westwood area of Cincinnati, the family and franchise owners now operate more than 60 pizzerias, with total annual sales of over $ 130 million.

Elias Boudinot ( ; May 2, 1740 – October 24, 1821 ) was a lawyer and statesman from Elizabeth, New Jersey who was a delegate to the Continental Congress and was elected as a U. S. Congressman for New Jersey following the American Revolutionary War.

Elisha Boudinot became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey.

After studying and being tutored at home, Elias Boudinot went to Princeton, New Jersey to read the law as a legal apprentice to Richard Stockton.

In 1760, Boudinot was admitted to the bar, and began his practice in Elizabeth, New Jersey.

When the United States ( US ) government was formed in 1789, Boudinot was elected from New Jersey to the US House of Representatives.

* Elias Boudinot Elementary School in Burlington, New Jersey is named after him, as are the following:

* Boudinot Place in Elizabeth, New Jersey

* Boudinot Street in Princeton, New Jersey.

* Boudinot Lane in Franklin Township, New Jersey

* 1839 – Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot are assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota, which had resulted in the Trail of Tears.

A printing press was established at New Echota by the Vermont missionary Samuel Worcester and Major Ridge's nephew Elias Boudinot, who had taken the name of his white benefactor, a leader of the Continental Congress and New Jersey Congressman.

His wife was poet Annis Boudinot Stockton, sister of New Jersey statesman Elias Boudinot.

In Burlington, New Jersey, the young men met Elias Boudinot, president of the American Bible Society and a former member and president of the Second Continental Congress.

After his return to New Echota, in 1828 Boudinot was selected by the General Council of the Cherokee as editor for a newspaper, the first to be published by a Native American nation.

* Pulley, Angela F ; " Elias Boudinot ", The New Georgia Encyclopedia.

Prior to removal of the Cherokee to Indian Territory in the late 1830s, Watie and his older brother Elias Boudinot were among leaders who signed the Treaty of New Echota in 1835.

In May 1835, a small group of Cherokee ( 300 – 500 Cherokee known as Ridgeites or the Treaty Party ) signed the Treaty of New Echota in the home of Elias Boudinot.

Ridge and Boudinot were both signatories to the Treaty of New Echota of 1835, by which they ceded Cherokee lands east of the Mississippi in exchange for lands in Indian Territory.

Together with his father and Boudinot, Ridge signed the Treaty of New Echota in 1835 after final negotiations with a delegation in Washington, D. C.

* Boxwood Hall, the Elizabeth, New Jersey, home of Elias Boudinot from 1772 to 1795

In his later years, Boudinot invested and speculated in land.

The first President was Elias Boudinot, who was also President of the Continental Congress from 1782 to 1783 and later Director of the U. S. Mint.

Boudinot urged the territory to regularize its status with the United States, and later supported measures needed to admit Oklahoma as a state.

His brothers were Gallagina, nicknamed " Buck " ( who later took the name Elias Boudinot ); and Thomas Watie.

The General Council in October 1835 rejected the proposed treaty but appointed a committee to go to Washington City to negotiate a removal treaty, a committee including not only John Ross but treaty advocates John Ridge, Charles Vann, and Elias Boudinot ( who was later replaced by Stand Watie ), to represent the Cherokee Nation East for a removal treaty with the stipulation that it has to be for more than five million dollars.

* Gaul, Theresa Strouth ; " Elias Boudinot ; and Harriett Gold Boudinot ; Introduction ", To Marry an Indian: The Marriage of Harriett Gold and Elias Boudinot in Letters, 1823 – 1839 ; University of North Carolina Press ; Chapel Hill, NC ; 2005 ; pp 1 – 76.

Prophet of Progress: The Life and Times of Elias Cornelius Boudinot, PhD diss., Oklahoma State University, 1982.

On the third day Allen was exchanged for Colonel Archibald Campbell, who was conducted to the exchange by Colonel Elias Boudinot, the American commissary general of prisoners appointed by General George Washington.

On May 5, 1777, General George Washington asked Boudinot to be appointed as commissary general for prisoners.

Boudinot was commissioned as a colonel in the Continental Army for this work.

In 1781, Boudinot returned to the Congress, for a term lasting through 1783.

The next day, Congressman Boudinot proposed that the House and Senate jointly request of President Washington to proclaim a day of thanksgiving for “ the many signal favors of Almighty God .” Boudinot said that he

As the Cherokee began to adopt some elements of European-American culture in the early 19th century, they sent elite young men, such as John Ridge and Elias Boudinot to American schools for education.

Boudinot believed that removal was inevitable and argued for a treaty to preserve Cherokee rights.

Watie asked Boudinot for permission to use his name, which he gave.

When enrolled at the Foreign Mission School, Watie started using the name Elias Boudinot, which he kept for the rest of his life.

In 1832, while on a speaking tour of the North to raise funds for the Phoenix, Boudinot learned that, in Worcester v. Georgia, the US Supreme Court had sustained the Cherokee rights to political and territorial sovereignty within Georgia's borders.

In this context, Boudinot began advocating for his people to secure the best possible terms with the US by making a binding treaty of removal.

Boudinot began to lobby for Native Americans to be granted United States citizenship in order to be protected by the Constitution.

In 1839, when Boudinot was four years old, his father and other Treaty Party leaders were assassinated by Cherokee opponents for having given up the tribal lands.

During the American Civil War, Boudinot fought for the Confederate States Army under his uncle Stand Watie.

When Elias Boudinot was appointed Commissary General of Prisoners, responsible for screening captured soldiers and for dealing with the British concerning American patriots whom they held prisoner, Washington recognized that the post offered " better opportunities than most other officers in the army, to obtain knowledge of the Enemy's Situation, motions and ... designs ," and added to Boudinot's responsibilities " the procuring of intelligence.

In the following months, Ridge found supporters for the removal option, including his father Major Ridge and the major's nephews Elias Boudinot and Stand Watie.