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cook, steward or mariner, or in any other employment," and that such free negroes should be seized and locked up until the vessels on which they had come were ready for See also:

sea, when they should he returned to such vessels. His visit aroused See also:

GREAT

great excitment, he was threatened with See also:

PERSONAL

personal injury, the state legislature passed resolutions calling for his See also:

EXPULSION (Lat. expulsio, from expellere)

expulsion, and he was compelled to leave early in See also:

DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December. In 1848 he was prominent in the Free See also:

SOIL

Soil See also:

MOVEMENT

movement in Massachusetts, and subsequently assisted in the organization of the Republican Party. In 185o he served in the Massachusetts house of representatives. He married a daughter of See also:

Roger See also:

Sherman of See also:

CONNECTICUT

Connecticut. He died at Concord, Massachusetts, on the and of November 1856.

See a memoir by his son G. F. Hoar in Memorial See also:

BIOGRAPHIES

Biographies of the New See also:

England Historic Genealogical Society, vol. iii. (See also:

Boston, 1883) ; the estimate by R. W. See also:

Emerson in Lectures and See also:

BIOGRAPHICAL

Biographical Sketches (Boston, 1903) ; and " Samuel Hoar's Expulsion from Charleston," Old South Leaflets, vol. vi. No. 140. His son, EBENEZER ROCKWOOD HOAR (181631895), was born at Concord, Massachusetts, on the 21st of See also:

FEBRUARY

February 1816. He graduated at Harvard in 1835 and at the Harvard Law School in 1839, and was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1840. From 1849 to 1855 he was a See also:

JUDGE (Lat. judex, Fr. juge)

judge of the Massachusetts court of See also:

COMMON

common pleas, from 1859 to 1869 a judge of the state supreme court, and in 1869-187o See also:

ATTORNEY (from O. Fr. atorne, a person appointed to act for another, from atourner, legal Lat. attornare, attorn, literally to turn over to another or commit business to another)

attorney-general of the See also:

UNITED

United States in the See also:

CABINET

cabinet of See also:

PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

President See also:

Grant, and in that position fought unmerited " See also:

machine " appointments to offices in the See also:

CIVIL

civil service until at the pressure of the " machine " Grant asked for his resignation from the cabinet. The Senate had already shown its disapproval of Hoar's policy of civil service reform by its failure in 1870 to confirm the President's nomination of Hoar as See also:

ASSOCIATE (Lat. associates, from ad, to, and sociare to join)

associate-See also:

JUSTICE (Lat. justitia)

justice of the supreme court.

In 1871 he was a member of the See also:

JOINT (through Fr. from Lat. junctum, jungere, to join)

Joint High See also:

COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

Commission which See also:

drew up the Treaty of See also:

Washington. In 1872 he was a presidential elector on the Republican See also:

TICKET (O. Fr. esliquet, also estiquette, mod. etiquette, from Ger. sleeken, to stick up)

ticket, and in 1873—1875 was a representative in Congress. He was a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard University from 1868 to 188o and from. 1881 to 1882, and was president of the Board in 1878-188o and in 1881-1887: He was also prominent in the affairs of the Unitarian See also:

church. He was a See also:

man of high See also:

CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character and brilliant wit. He died at Concord on the 31st of See also:

JANUARY

January 1895. Another son, GEORGE FRISBIE HOAR (1826-1904), was born in Concord, Massachusetts, on the 29th of See also:

AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1826. He graduated at Harvard in 1846 and at the Harvard Law School in 1849. He settled in the practice of law in See also:

Worcester, Massachusetts, where in 1852 he became a partner of Emory See also:

Washburn (1800-1877). In 1852 he was elected as a Free-Soiler to the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and during his single See also:

TERM

term of service became the See also:

LEADER, BENJAMIN WILLIAMS (1831– )

leader of his party in that See also:

BODY

body. He was active in the organization of the Republican party in Massachusetts, and in 1857 was elected to the State senate, but declined a re-See also:

election. During 1856–1857 he was active in behalf of the Free-State cause in See also:

KANSAS (known as the Sunflower State ")

Kansas.

He was a member of the National House of Representatives from 1869 until 1877, and in this body took high See also:

RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank as a ready debater and a conscientious See also:

COMMITTEE (from commute, an Anglo-Fr. past participle of commettre, Lat. committere, to entrust; the modern Fr. equivalent comite is derived from the Eng.)

committee worker. He was prominent as a defender and supporter of the Freedman's See also:

BUREAU (a Fr. word from burel or bureau, a coarse cloth used for coverings)

Bureau, took a leading See also:

PART

part in the later reconstruction legislation and in the investigation of the See also:

CREDIT (Lat. credere, to believe)

Credit Mobilier See also:

SCANDAL

scandal, and in 1876 was one of the House managers of the See also:

IMPEACHMENT (O. Fr. empeahement, empeschement, from em pecher or empescher, to hinder, Late Lat. impedicare, to entangle, pedica, fetter, pes, foot)

impeachment of General W. W. See also:

Belknap, Grant's secretary of war. In 1877 he was a member of the Electoral Commission which settled the disputed See also:

HAYES, RUTHERFORD BIRCHARD (1822–1893)

Hayes-See also:

TILDEN, SAMUEL JONES (1814-1886)

Tilden election. From 1877 until his See also:

DEATH

death he was a member of the United States senate. In the senate almost from the start he took rank as one of the most influential leaders of the Republican party; he was a member from 1882 until his death of the important Judiciary Committee, of which he was chairman in 1891–1893 and in 1895–1904. His most important piece of legislation was the Presidential See also:

SUCCESSION (Lat. successio, from succedere, to follow after)

Succession See also:

ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

Act of 1886. He was a delegate to every Republican National Convention from 1876 to 1904, and presided over that at See also:

Chicago in 1880. He was a conservative by See also:

BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

birth and training, and although he did not leave his party he disagreed with its policy in regard to the Philippines, and spoke and voted against the ratification of the See also:

SPANISH

Spanish Treaty. He was See also:

REGENT (from Lat. regere, to rule)

regent of the Smithsonian Institution in 188o-1881, and See also:

long served as an overseer of Harvard University (1896–1904) and as president of its alumni association. He was also president of the American See also:

HISTORICAL

Historical Association (1894–1895) and of the American Antiquarian Society (1884–1887).

Like his See also:

BROTHER

brother, he was a leading Unitarian, and was president of its National See also:

CONFERENCE

Conference from 1894 to 1902. He died at Worcester, Massachusetts, on the 3oth of See also:

SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1904. A memorial statue has been erected there. See his Recollections of Seventy Years (New See also:

York, 1903).

End of Article: HOAR, SAMUEL (1778-1856)

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