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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsEdward EVERETT
(1794-1865)
Senate Years of Service:
1853-1854Party: WhigEVERETT, Edward, (father
of William Everett), a Representative and a Senator from
Massachusetts; born in Dorchester, Mass., April 11, 1794; graduated
from Harvard University in 1811; tutor in that university
1812-1814; studied theology and was ordained pastor of the Brattle
Street Unitarian Church, Boston, in 1814; professor of Greek
literature at Harvard University 1815-1826; overseer of Harvard
University 1827-1847, 1849-1854, and 1862-1865; elected to the
Nineteenth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1825-March 3, 1835); declined to be a candidate for renomination in
1834; chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs (Twentieth Congress);
Governor of Massachusetts 1836-1840; appointed United States Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Great Britain
1841-1845; declined a diplomatic commission to China in 1843;
president of Harvard University 1846-1849; appointed Secretary of
State by President Millard Fillmore to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Daniel Webster and served from November 6, 1852, to
March 3, 1853; elected as a Whig to the United States Senate and
served from March 4, 1853, until his resignation, effective June 1,
1854; unsuccessful candidate for vice president of the United
States in 1860 on the Constitutional-Union ticket; died in Boston,
Mass., January 15, 1865; interment in Mount Auburn Cemetery,
Cambridge, Mass.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Everett, Edward. Edward
Everett Papers. Edited by Frederick S. Allis, Jr. Boston:
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1972. Microfilm. 54 reels and
guide; Reid, Ronald F. Edward Everett: Unionist Orator. New
York: Greenwood Press, 1990.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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