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WILLIAM MAXWELL EVARTS (1818–1901)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 4 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:MAXWELL See also:EVARTS (1818–1901)  , See also:American lawyer, was See also:born in See also:Boston on the 6th of See also:February 1818 . He graduated at Yale in 1837, was admitted to the See also:bar in New See also:York in 1841, and soon took high See also:rank in his profession . In 186o he was chairman of the New York delegation to the Republican See also:national See also:convention . In 1861 he was an unsuccessful See also:candidate for the See also:United States senatorship from New York . He was See also:chief counsel for See also:President See also:Johnson during the See also:impeachment trial, and from See also:July 1868 until See also:March 1869 he was See also:attorney-See also:general of the United States . In 1872 he was counsel for the United States in the " See also:Alabama " See also:arbitration . During President See also:Hayes's ad-ministration (1877–1881) he was secretary of See also:state; and from 1885 to 1891 he was one of the senators from New York . As an orator Senator See also:Evarts stood in the foremost rank, and some of his best speeches were published . He died in New York on the 28th of February 1901 .

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