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

G . McCullough, with a Memoir by John W . See also:

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

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