Ebenezer R. Hoar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ebenezer R. Hoar

American lawyer, judge, and politician

Date of Birth: 21-Feb-1816

Place of Birth: Rioko, Massachusetts, United States

Date of Death: 31-Jan-1895

Profession: judge, lawyer, politician, diplomat

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Ebenezer R. Hoar

  • Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar (February 21, 1816 – January 31, 1895) was an American politician, lawyer, and justice from Massachusetts.
  • He was appointed U.S.
  • Attorney General in 1869 by President Ulysses S.
  • Grant; he became the first U.S.
  • Attorney General to head the newly created Department of Justice in July 1870.
  • As Attorney General Hoar worked with President Ulysses S.
  • Grant and Secretary of State Hamilton Fish over contentious issues as settling the Alabama Claims with England and in keeping the United States from recognizing Cuban belligerency during the Ten Years' War.
  • Hoar assisted Grant in appointing two Supreme Court justices that helped overturn a decision outlawing paper money as legal tender.
  • Hoar himself, nominated by President Grant, was rejected by the Senate to fill a Supreme Court vacancy, in part due to senators' dismay over Hoar's resistance to distribution of federal patronage jobs without regard to the job applicant's capabilities. Hoar's position on Grant's Cabinet was tenuous, since two Cabinet members, Secretary of the Treasury, George S.
  • Boutwell and Hoar, were from Massachusetts, during an era when regionally balanced cabinets were an expected norm by members of the U.S.
  • Senate.
  • In June 1870, Hoar was asked to resign by President Grant; Hoar's unexpected resignation became controversial when his resignation letter to Grant was printed by news journals.
  • Hoar departed from office in November 1870, upon the confirmation of Amos T.
  • Akerman from Georgia. Hoar came from a prominent Puritan family that had settled in Massachusetts in 1640.
  • An exceptionally bright student from his youth, Hoar attended Harvard College starting in 1831 and graduated in 1835.
  • After teaching and traveling in the West, Hoar returned to Concord and studied law, passing the bar in 1839.
  • In 1846, Hoar was elected as a Whig to the Massachusetts State Senate.
  • From 1849 to 1855, Hoar served on the Massachusetts court of common pleas.
  • In 1859, Hoar was appointed to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, serving until his appointment as U.S.
  • Attorney General in 1869.
  • In 1871, Hoar was appointed by Grant to the United States joint high commission, that negotiated the Treaty of Washington, in May, between the U.S.
  • and the United Kingdom, which created an arbitration tribunal to settle the Alabama Claims and boundary disputes. Hoar was a member of the Harvard College Board of Overseers from 1868 to 1882.
  • In 1872, Hoar was elected as a Republican to the 43rd Congress, serving from 1873 to 1875.
  • After his term as Congressman ended Hoar returned to his law practice in Concord and Boston, Massachusetts, working until his death in 1895.

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