EVARTS, William Maxwell, (grandson of
Roger Sherman), 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; was 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. - Biographical
Data courtesy of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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The United Colonies 1st
government began in a Philadelphia Tavern
and the United States 1st federal government ended in a
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The Founders convened the government in 11 different capitol buildings and
experienced 15 years of challenges that
included war,
hyper-inflation, a failed
constitution, judicial corruption, armed citizen and U.S. Army rebellions.
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