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EDWARD JOHN PHELPS (1822-I900)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 363 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDWARD JOHN PHELPS (1822-I900)  ,
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American lawyer and diplomat, was born on the 11th of
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July 1822 at
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Middlebury,
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Vermont . He graduated from Middlebury College in 1840, was a schoolmaster for a
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year in Virginia, and was admitted to the bar in 1843 . He began practice at Middlebury, but in 1845 removed to
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Burlington, Vermont . From 1851 to 1853 he was second
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comptroller of the
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United States
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Treasury, and then practised law in New York City until 1857, when he returned to Burlington . Becoming a Democrat after the Whig party had ceased to exist, he was debarred from a
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political career in his own state, where his party was in the minority, but he served in the state constitutional convention in 1870, and in 188o was the Democratic
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candidate for governor of his state . He was one of the founders of the American Bar Association, and was its president in 188o-1881 . From 1881 until his
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death he was Kent Professor of Law in Yale University . He was minister to
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Great Britain from 1885 to I88g, and in 1893 served as senior counsel for the United States before the inter-
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national tribunal at Paris to adjust the Bering Sea controversy . His closing
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argument, requiring eleven days for its delivery, was an exhaustive review of the case . Phelps lectured on medical jurisprudence at the university of Vermont in 1881-1883, and on constitutional law at Boston University in 1882-1883, and delivered numerous addresses, among them that on " The United States Supreme Court and the
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Sovereignty of the
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People " at the contennial celebration of the Federal Judiciary in 1890 and an oration at the dedication of the
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Bennington
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Battle Monument, unveiled in 1891 at the centennial of Vermont's
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admission to the Union . In politics Phelps was always Conservative, opposing the anti-
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slavery
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movement before 186o, the
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free-
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silver movement in 1896, when he supported the Republican presidential ticket, and' after 1898 becoming an ardent " anti-expansionist." He died at New Haven,
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Connecticut, on the 9th of March 1900 . See the Orations and Essays of
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Edward John Phelps, edited by J .

G . McCullough, with a Memoir by John W .

Stewart (New York, 1901) ; and "
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Life and Public Services of the Hon . Edward J . Phelps," by Matthew H . Buckham, in Proceedings of the Vermont
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Historical Society (Burlington, Vt., 1901) .

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