Evarts, William Maxwell

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Full name
William Maxwell Evarts
Place of Birth
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Birth Date Certainty
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Death Date Certainty
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Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Free State
Education
Harvard
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Occupation
Politician
Diplomat
Attorney or Judge
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Political Parties
Republican
Government
Taylor Administration (1849-50)
Fillmore Administration (1850-53)
Johnson Administration (1865-69)
Hayes Administration (1877-81)
US Senate

William Maxwell Evarts (Congressional Biographical Directory)

Reference
EVARTS, William Maxwell,  (grandson of Roger Sherman, cousin of Roger Sherman Baldwin), a Senator from New York; born in Boston, Mass., February 6, 1818; attended the Boston Latin School and graduated from Yale College in 1837; studied at Harvard Law School; admitted to the bar in New York City in 1841 and practiced law; assistant United States district attorney 1849-1853; unsuccessful Republican candidate for the United States Senate in 1861; member of the State constitutional convention 1867-1868; appointed Attorney General of the United States by President Andrew Johnson 1868-1869; chief counsel for President Johnson in the impeachment proceedings in 1868; counsel for the United States before the tribunal of arbitration on the Alabama claims at Geneva, Switzerland, in 1872; counsel for President Rutherford Hayes, in behalf of the Republican Party, before the Electoral Commission in 1876; appointed Secretary of State of the United States by President Hayes 1877-1881; delegate to the International Monetary Conference at Paris 1881; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1885, to March 3, 1891; chairman, Committee on the Library (Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses); retired from public life due to ill health; died in New York City, February 28, 1901; interment in Ascutney Cemetery, Windsor, Vt.
"Evarts, William Maxwell," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000262.
How to Cite This Page: "Evarts, William Maxwell," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/11997.