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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsEbenezer Rockwood HOAR
(1816-1895)
HOAR, Ebenezer Rockwood,
(grandson of Roger Sherman, son of Samuel Hoar, brother of George
Frisbie Hoar, father of Sherman Hoar, and uncle of Rockwood Hoar),
a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Concord, Mass.,
February 21, 1816; pursued classical studies and was graduated from
Harvard University in 1835; was admitted to the bar in 1840 and
commenced practice in Concord and Boston, Mass.; served in the
State senate in 1846 as an anti-slavery Whig; judge of the court of
common pleas 1849-1855; judge of the State supreme court 1859-1869;
Attorney General of the United States from March 1869 until his
resignation in June 1870; nominated in 1869 by President Grant as
an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court but was not confirmed by
the Senate; member of the joint high commission which framed the
treaty of Washington in 1871 under which the tribunal was provided
for to settle the Alabama claims; elected as a Republican to
the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); was not a
candidate for renomination in 1874; resumed the practice of his
profession in Concord and Boston, Mass.; member of the board of
overseers of Harvard University 1868-1882; died in Concord, Mass.,
January 31, 1895; interment in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
Bibliography
Storey, Moorfield, and Edward W. Emerson. Ebenezer Rockwood
Hoar; A Memoir. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin,
1911.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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