PHELPS, EDWARD JOHN (1822-I900)

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PHELPS, EDWARD JOHN (1822-I900) , American lawyer and diplomat, was born on the 11th of July 1822 at Middlebury,

Vermont

VERMONT

. He graduated from Middlebury College in 1840, was a schoolmaster for a year in Virginia, and was admitted to the bar in 1843. He began practice at Middlebury, but in 1845 removed to Burlington,

Vermont

VERMONT

. From 1851 to 1853 he was second comptroller of the United States Treasury, and then practised law in New

York

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City until 1857, when he returned to Burlington. Becoming a Democrat after the Whig party had ceased to exist, he was debarred from a political career in his own state, where his party was in the minority, but he served in the state constitutional convention in 1870, and in 188o was the Democratic candidate for

governor

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of his state. He was one of the founders of the American Bar Association, and was its president in 188o-1881. From 1881 until his death he was Kent Professor of Law in Yale University. He was minister to

Great

GREAT

Britain from 1885 to I88g, and in 1893 served as senior counsel for the United States before the inter-national tribunal at Paris to adjust the Bering Sea controversy. His closing argument, requiring eleven days for its delivery, was an exhaustive review of the case. Phelps lectured on medical jurisprudence at the university of Vermont in 1881-1883, and on constitutional law at Boston University in 1882-1883, and delivered numerous addresses, among them that on " The United States Supreme Court and the Sovereignty of the People " at the contennial celebration of the Federal Judiciary in 1890 and an oration at the dedication of the Bennington Battle Monument, unveiled in 1891 at the centennial of Vermont's admission to the Union. In politics Phelps was always Conservative, opposing the anti-slavery

movement

MOVEMENT

before 186o, the free-silver

movement

MOVEMENT

in 1896, when he supported the Republican presidential ticket, and' after 1898 becoming an ardent " anti-expansionist." He died at New Haven, Connecticut, on the 9th of March 1900.
See the Orations and Essays of Edward John Phelps, edited by J. G. McCullough, with a Memoir by John W. Stewart (New

York

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- HOUSE
- HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
OF)
YORK, EDMUND OF
LANGLEY
- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
YORK, EDWARD
YORK, FREDERICK
AUGUSTUS
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, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
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, 1901) ; and " Life and Public Services of the Hon. Edward J. Phelps," by

Matthew

H. Buckham, in Proceedings of the Vermont Historical Society (Burlington, Vt., 1901).

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