Amos T. Akerman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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United States Attorney General
Date of Birth: 23-Feb-1821
Place of Birth: Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States
Date of Death: 21-Dec-1880
Profession: lawyer, politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Amos T. Akerman
- Amos Tappan Akerman (February 23, 1821 – December 21, 1880) served as United States Attorney General under President Ulysses S.
- Grant from 1870 to 1871.
- A native of New Hampshire, Akerman graduated from Dartmouth College in 1842 and moved South, where he had most of his career.
- He first worked as headmaster of a school in North Carolina and as a tutor in Georgia.
- Having become interested in law, Akerman studied and passed the bar in Georgia in 1850; where he and an associate set up a law practice.
- He also owned a farm and eleven slaves.
- When the Civil War started in 1861, Akerman joined the Confederate Army, where he achieved the rank of colonel. After the Civil War ended in 1865, Akerman joined the Republican Party during Reconstruction.
- He became an outspoken attorney advocate for freedmen's civil rights in Georgia.
- Akerman was appointed by President Ulysses S.
- Grant as his U.S.
- Attorney General; with Grant's support, he vigorously prosecuted the Klan in the South under the Enforcement Acts.
- Akerman was assisted by Sol.
- Gen.
- Benjamin Bristow in the newly established Department of Justice.
- Att.
- Gen.
- Akerman also prosecuted important land grant cases that concerned railroads in a rapidly expanding West.
- Akerman advised on the United States first federal Civil Service Reform law implemented by President Grant and the U.S.
- Congress.
- Due to Akerman's integrity against railroad magnates, and his zeal to prosecute the Ku Klux Klan, Grant was politically pressured to dismiss Akerman from the cabinet.
- Although Akerman left office in controversy, he continued to support Grant.
- He returned to Georgia, practiced law, and remained highly popular in the state.
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