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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsHOAR, Ebenezer Rockwood
(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.
Butler, Benjamin Franklin. Letter of General Benj. F. Butler, to Hon. E. R. Hoar
. [Lowell?, Mass.]: N.p., 1876.
Hoar, Ebenezer Rockwood. Address at the laying of the corner stone of the Memorial Hall
. Boston: Tolman & White, printers, 1870.
———. Address in the old Concord Meeting House, April 19, 1894
. Boston: Beacon Press, T. Todd, printer, 1894.
Hoar, George Frisbie. The charge against President Grant and Attorney General Hoar of packing the Supreme Court of the United States
. Worcester, Mass.: Press of C. Hamilton, [1896?]
Massachusetts. Bar. Tributes to the Bar and of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth to the memory of Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar
. Cambridge, [Mass.]: J. Wilson and Son, University Press, 1895.
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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