Edwards Pierrepont, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Edwards Pierrepont

American politician, lawyer and United States Attorneys General

Date of Birth: 04-Mar-1817

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Date of Death: 06-Mar-1892

Profession: judge, lawyer, politician, diplomat

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Edwards Pierrepont

  • Edwards Pierrepont (March 4, 1817 – March 6, 1892) was an American attorney, reformer, jurist, traveler, New York U.S.
  • Attorney, U.S.
  • Attorney General, U.S.
  • Minister to England, and orator.
  • Having graduated from Yale in 1837, Pierrepont studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1840.
  • During the American Civil War, Pierrepont was a Democrat, although he supported President Abraham Lincoln.
  • Pierrepont initially supported President Andrew Johnson's conservative Reconstruction efforts having opposed the Radical Republicans.
  • In both 1868 and 1872, Pierrepont supported Ulysses S.
  • Grant for President.
  • For his support, President Grant appointed Pierrepont United States Attorney in 1869.
  • In 1871, Pierrepont gained the reputation as a solid reformer, having joined New York's Committee of Seventy that shut down Boss Tweed's corrupt Tammany Hall.
  • In 1872, Pierrepont modified his views on Reconstruction and stated that African American freedman's rights needed to be protected.In April 1875, Pierrepont was appointed U.S.
  • Attorney General by President Grant, who, having teamed up with Secretary of Treasury Benjamin Bristow, vigorously prosecuted the notorious Whiskey Ring, a national tax evasion swindle that involved whiskey distillers, brokers, and government officials, including President Grant's private secretary, Orville E.
  • Babcock.
  • Upon his appointment, Pierrepont quickly cleaned up corruption in Southern U.S.
  • districts.
  • Pierrepont had continued former Attorney General George H.
  • Williams moratorium on prosecuting the Ku Klux Klan.
  • The Klan had been previously prosecuted by President Grant's Attorneys General Amos T.
  • Akerman and Williams from 1871 to 1873, prosecuting civil rights violations of whites against African Americans.
  • Pierrepont ruled that a naturalized Prussian immigrant's son born in the U.S.
  • was not obligated to serve in the Prussian military as an adult.
  • In his ruling of the Chorpenning Claim, Pierrepont cited the Supreme Court case Gorden v United States, having agreed that the Postmaster General, as well as the Secretary of War, served as ministers rather than legally binding arbitrators for a monetary claim by a private citizen.
  • After serving as Attorney General, Pierrepont was appointed Minister to Great Britain by President Grant serving from 1876 to 1877.
  • After many visits to France, Pierrepont became an advocate for bimetalism.
  • Having returned from England, Pierrepont resumed his law practice until his death in 1892.

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