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About Ebenezer R. Hoar
Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar was an American politician, lawyer, and jurist from Massachusetts. He served as U.S. Attorney General from 1869 to 1870, and was the first head of the newly created Department of Justice. Hoar assisted President Ulysses S. Grant in appointing two United States Supreme Court justices and was himself nominated to the Court. His nomination was rejected by the United States Senate, in part for his positions on patronage reform. In 1871, Hoar was appointed by Grant to the United States high commission that negotiated the Treaty of Washington between the U.S. and the United Kingdom, helping to settle the Alabama Claims.
Everything about Ebenezer R. Hoar →- Occupation
- politician, lawyer, judge, diplomat
- Position held
- United States representative, United States Attorney General, member of the State Senate of Massachusetts
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- February 21, 1816
- Died
- January 31, 1895