EVARTS, WILLIAM MAXWELL (18181901)

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EVARTS, WILLIAM MAXWELL (18181901) , American lawyer, was born in Boston on the 6th of February 1818. He graduated at Yale in 1837, was admitted to the bar in New

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in 1841, and soon took high rank in his profession. In 186o he was chairman of the New

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delegation to the Republican national convention. In 1861 he was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States senatorship from New York. He was

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counsel for President Johnson during the

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trial, and from July 1868 until March 1869 he was attorney-general of the United States. In 1872 he was counsel for the United States in the "

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" arbitration. During President Hayes's ad-ministration (18771881) he was secretary of state; and from 1885 to 1891 he was one of the senators from New York. As an orator Senator

Evarts

EVARTS, WILLIAM MAXWELL (1818–1901)

stood in the foremost rank, and some of his best speeches were published. He died in New York on the 28th of February 1901.

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