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See also:CHOATE, See also:RUFUS (1799-1859) , See also:American lawyer and orator, was See also:born at See also:Ipswich, See also:Massachusetts, on the 1st of See also:October 1,799, the descendant of a See also:family which settled in Massachusetts in 1667. As a See also:child he was remarkably precocious; at six he is said to have been able' to repeat large parts of the See also:Bible and of See also:Pilgrim's Progress by See also:heart. He graduated as valedictorian of his class at See also:Dartmouth See also:College in 1819, was a See also:tutor therein 1819-182o, spent a See also:year in the See also:law school of Harvard University, and studied for a like See also:period at See also:Washington, in the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Wirt, then See also:attorney-See also:general of the See also:United States. He was admitted to the Massachusetts See also:bar in 1823 and practised at what was later See also:South See also:Danvers (now See also:Peabody) for five years, during which See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he served in the Massachusetts See also:House of Representatives (1825–1826) and in the See also:state See also:senate (1827). In 1828 he removed to See also:Salem, where his successful conduct of several important law-suits brought him prominently into public See also:notice. In 183o he was elected to See also:Congress as a Whig from the Salem See also:district, defeating the Jacksonian See also:candidate for re-See also:election,
B. W. Crowninshield (1772-1851), a former secretary of the See also:navy, and in 1832 he was re-elected. His career in Congress was marked by a notable speech in See also:defence of a protective See also:tariff. In 1834, before the completion of his second See also:term, he resigned and established himself in the practice of law in See also:Boston. Already his fame as a See also:speaker had spread beyond New See also:England, and he was much sought after as an orator for public occasions. For several years he devoted himself unremittingly to his profession, but in 1841 succeeded See also:Daniel See also:Webster in the United States Senate. Shortly afterwards he delivered one of his most eloquent addresses at the memorial services for See also:President See also:Harrison in Faneuil See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall, Boston. In the Senate he made a See also:series of brilliant speeches on the tariff, the See also:Oregon boundary, in favour of the Fiscal See also:Bank See also:Act, and in opposition to the See also:annexation of See also:Texas. On Webster's re-election to the Senate, Choate resumed (1845) his law practice, which no amount of urging could ever persuade him to abandon for public office, See also:save for a See also:short term as attorney-general of Massachusetts in 1853-1854. In 1853 he was a member of the state constitutional See also:convention. He was a faithful supporter of Webster's policy as declared in the latter's famous " Seventh of See also:March Speech " (185o) and laboured to secure for him the presidential nomination at the Whig See also:national convention in 1852. In 1856 he refused to follow most of his former Whig associates into the Republican party and gave his support to See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Buchanan, whom he considered the representative of a national instead of a sectional party. In See also:July 1859 failing See also:health led him to seek See also:rest in a trip to See also:Europe, but he died on the 13th of that See also:month at See also:Halifax, Nova See also:Scotia, where he had been put ashore when it was seen that he probably could not outlive the voyage across the See also:Atlantic. Choate, besides being one of the ablest of American lawyers, was one of the most scholarly of American public men, and his numerous orations and addresses were remarkable for their pure See also:style, their See also:- GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
- GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )
grace and elegance of See also:form, and their See also:wealth of classical allusion.
His See also:Works (edited, with a memoir, by S. G. See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
Brown) were published in 2 vols. at Boston in 1862. The Memoir was afterwards published separately (Boston, 1870). See also E. G. See also:Parker's Reminiscences of Rufus Choate (New See also:York, 186o) ; E. P. Whipple's Some Recollections of Rufus Choate (New York, 1879) ; and the See also:Albany Law See also:Review (1877-1878).
End of Article: CHOATE, RUFUS (1799-1859)
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