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 GEORGE F. HOAR

, of Worcester, was born at Concord, Mass., August 29, 1826; studied in early youth at Concord Academy; graduated at Harvard College in 1846; studied law and graduated at the Dane Law School, Harvard University; settled at Worcester, where he practiced; was city solicitor in 1860; was president of the trustees of the city library; was a member of the State house of representatives in 1852, and of the State senate in 1857; was elected Representative to the Forty-First, Forty-Second, Forty-Third, and Forty-Fourth Congresses; declined a renomination for Representative in the Forty-Fifth Congress; was an overseer of Harvard College, 1874–80; declined reëlection, but was reëlected in 1896; was chosen president of the Association of the Alumni of Harvard, but declined; presided over the Massachusetts State Republican conventions of 1871, 1877, 1882, and 1885; was a delegate to the Republican national conventions of 1876 at Cincinnati, and of 1880, 1884, and 1888, at Chicago, presiding over the convention of 1880; was chairman of the Massachusetts delegation in 1880, 1884, and 1888; was one of the managers on the part of the House of Representatives of the Belknap impeachment trial in 1876; was a member of the Electoral Commission in 1876; was regent of the Smithsonian Institution in 1880; has been president and is now vice-president of the American Antiquarian Society, president of the American Historical Association, trustee of the Peabody Museum of Archæology, trustee of Leicester