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About William M. Evarts
William Maxwell Evarts was an American lawyer and statesman from New York who served as U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator from New York. He was renowned for his skills as a litigator and was involved in three of the most important causes of American political jurisprudence in his day: the impeachment of a president, the Geneva arbitration and the contests before the electoral commission to settle the presidential election of 1876.
Everything about William M. Evarts →- Occupation
- politician, lawyer, diplomat, jurist
- Position held
- United States Attorney General, United States Secretary of State, United States senator, United States senator
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- February 6, 1818
- Died
- February 28, 1901