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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsCHOATE, Rufus
(1799—1859)
Senate Years of Service:
1841-1845
Party:
Whig
CHOATE, Rufus, a Representative and a Senator from Massachusetts; born in Essex, Mass., on October 1, 1799; graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1819; studied law; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Danvers, Mass., in 1823; member, State house of representatives 1825; member, State senate 1826; moved to Salem in 1828; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-second and Twenty-third Congresses and served from March 4, 1831, to June 30, 1834, when he resigned; moved to Boston in 1834; elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Daniel Webster and served from February 23, 1841, to March 3, 1845; retired from political life to devote his time to law; member of the State constitutional convention in 1853; attorney general of Massachusetts in 1853; died in Halifax, Nova Scotia, July 13, 1859; interment in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography
; Choate, Rufus. The Works of Rufus Choate: With A Memoir of His Life
. Edited by S.G. Brown. 2 vols. 1862. Reprint. New York: AMS Press, 1972; Matthews, Jean. Rufus Choate
. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1980.
Boutwell, George Sewall. The Lawyer, the Statesman and the Soldier
. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1887.
Brown, Samuel Gilman. The Works of Rufus Choate, with a Memoir of His Life
. 2 vols. 1862. Reprint. New York: AMS Press, 1972.
Fuess, Claude Moore. Rufus Choate, the Wizard of the Law
. 1928. Reprint. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1970.
Hagan, Horace H. “Rufus Choate (1799-1859).” In Eight Great American Lawyers
, pp. 142-67. 1923. Reprint. Littleton, CO: Fred B. Rothman & Co., 1987.
Matthews, Jean V. Rufus Choate, the Law and Civic Virtue
. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1980.
Neilson, Joseph. Memories of Rufus Choate: With Some Consideration of His Studies, Methods, and Opinions, and of His Style as a Speaker and Writer
. 1884. Reprint. Littleton, CO: Fred B. Rothman & Co., 1985.
Parker, Edward Griffin. Reminiscences of Rufus Choate, the Great American Advocate
. New York: Mason Brothers, 1860.
”Rufus Choate Letters.” Essex Institute Historical Collections
69 (January 1933): 81-87.
Walker, David Bradstreet. “Rufus Choate, an American Whig.” Ph.D. dissertation, Brown University, 1956.
___. “Rufus Choate: A Case Study in Old Whiggery.” Essex Institute Historical Collections
94 (October 1958): 334-55.
Whipple, Edwin Percy. Some Recollections of Rufus Choate
. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1879.
Woods, Thomas E., Jr., ed. The Political Writings of Rufus Choate
. Washington, D.C. : Regnery Publishing ; Lanham, Md.: Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, 2002.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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