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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkEVARTS, William Maxwell
(1818—1901)
Senate Years of Service:
1885-1891
Party:
Republican
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.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography
; Barrows, Chester. William M. Evarts: Lawyer, Diplomat, Statesman
. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1941; Dyer, Brainerd. The Public Career of William M. Evarts
. 1933. Reprint. New York: Da Capo press, 1969.
Barrows, Chester Leonard. William M. Evarts, Lawyer, Diplomat, Statesman
. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1941.
Beall, Paul Rensselaer. “The Forensic Rhetoric of William Maxwell Evarts.” Ph.D. dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, 1948.
Dyer, Brainerd. The Public Career of William M. Evarts
. 1933. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1969.
Evarts, Sherman, ed. Arguments and Speeches of William Maxwell Evarts
. 3 vols. New York: Macmillan Co., 1919.
Hagan, Horace H. “William M. Evarts (1819-1901).” In Eight Great American Lawyers
, pp. 254-93. 1923. Reprint. Littleton, CO: Fred B. Rothman & Co., 1987.
Pennanen, Gary A. “The Foreign Policy of William Maxwell Evarts.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1969.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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