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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsEVERETT, Edward
(1794—1865)
Senate Years of Service:
1853-1854
Party:
Whig
EVERETT, 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
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. 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.
Allis, Frederick S., Jr., ed. Edward Everett Papers
. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1972. Microfilm. 54 reels and guide.
Christian, William Kenneth. “The Mind of Edward Everett.” Ph.D. dissertation, Michigan State College, 1952.
Everett, Edward. The Life of George Washington
. New York: Sheldon & Co., 1860.
___. Orations and Speeches, on Various Occasions
. 1836. Reprint. New York: Arno Press, 1972.
___. Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions
. 4 vols. Boston: Little, Brown, & Co., 1870-78.
Frothingham, Paul Revere. Edward Everett, Orator and Statesman
. 1925. Reprint. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1971.
Geiger, John O. “A Scholar Meets John Bull: Edward Everett as United States Minister to England, 1841-1845.” New England Quarterly
49 (December 1976): 577-95.
”Memoir of Edward Everett.” Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society
18 (December 1903): 91-117.
Reid, Ronald F. “Edward Everett: Rhetorician of Nationalism, 1824-1855.” Quarterly Journal of Speech
42 (October 1956): 273-82.
___. Edward Everett: Unionist Orator
. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990.
Selections from the Works of Edward Everett, with a Sketch of His Life
. Boston: J. Burns, 1839.
Varg, Paul A. Edward Everett: The Intellectual in the Turmoil of Politics
. Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna University Press, 1992.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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