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See also:WAYNE See also:MACVEAGH (1833— ) , See also:American lawyer and diplomatist, was See also:born near See also:Phoenixville, See also:Chester See also:county, Pa., on the 19th of See also:April 1833 . He graduated at Yale in 1853, was admitted to the See also:bar in 1856, and was See also:district See also:attorney of Chester county in 1859—1864 . He held commands in See also:militia forces raised to meet threatened Confederate invasions of See also:Pennsylvania (1862—63) . He became a See also:leader in the Republican party, and was a prominent opponent of his See also:father-in-See also:law, See also:Simon See also:Cameron, in the fight within the party in 1871 . See also:MacVeagh was See also:minister to See also:Turkey in 1870—1871; was a member of the See also:state constitutional See also:convention of 1872—1873; was chairman of the " MacVeagh See also:Commission," sent in 1877 by See also:President See also:Hayes to See also:Louisiana, which secured the See also:settlement of the contest between the two existing state governments and thus made possible the withdrawal of Federal troops from the state; and was attorney-See also:general of the See also:United States in 1881 under President See also:Garfield, but resigned immediately after Garfield's See also:death . In 1892 he supported Grover See also:Cleveland, the Democratic nominee for the See also:presidency, and from 1893 to 1897 was See also:ambassador to See also:Italy . He returned to the Republican party in 1896 . In 1903 he was See also:chief counsel of the United States before the See also:Hague tribunal in the See also:case regarding the claims of See also:Germany, See also:Great See also:Britain and Italy against the See also:republic of See also:Venezuela . |
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