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regiment Connecticut militia during tlio Revolu- tion and a representative in the Connecticut leg- islature for twenty-six sessions. His fatlier was mayor of New Haven. Conn., and of Cleveland, Ohio; and his mother was the eldest child of "William Walton and Elizabeth (Dwight) AVoolsey, niece of the first President Dwiglit of Yale college, and sister of President Woolsey of Yale col- lege. His father re- i^^ moved to Cleveland, Oliio, in 1830, and George was gradu- ated at "Western Re- serve college, A.B., in 1844, and A.M., in 1847. He was a stu- dent at Harvard law school. 1844-45, and a lawyer in Cincinnati. Oliio, 1847-86, practising in ijartnersiiip with Salmon P. Chase and Fla- men Ball, 1849-51, with Edward Mills, 1853-59, and with Col. John P. Jackson, Edgar M. Johnson and E Iward Colston at various times l)etween 186G and 18S7. He was made sole judge of the superior court of Cincinnati by the legislature of Ohio, serving 1851-53, and was twice made judge of another court of the same naine by election of the people, 1859-66. He was city solicitor for Cincinnati, 1855-56. He declined a seat on the supreme court bench of the state offered by Gov- ernor Cliase in 1856, and by Governor Tod in 1862. He was a member of the state constitutional con- vention of 1873-74; and a bolting member of the Liberal Republican national convention of May 1, 1872, that nominated Horace Greeley for President. Although originally a Democrat before the Kan- sa.s-Xebraska law of 1854. and a Republican up to the time of this convention, he supported Presi- dent Grant for a second term only as a " choice of evils," and then returned to the Democratic party, supporting TiMen and Hendricks in 1876. He ■was temporary chairman of the Democratic national convention of 1880; was elected gover- nor of Ohio in 1883, defeating Joseph B. Foraker, Republican, and in 1885 he was defeated in the gubernatorial vote by Mr. Foraker. He suc- cessfully opposed an effort made in the Ohio courts to enforce the reading of the Rilde in all public schools of the state; was leading coun- sel for the assignees and creditors of Archbishop Purcell, and was one of the counsel for Samuel J. Tilden before the electoral commission of 1877, arguing the cases of Florida and Oregon before the commis.sion. He was professor in the Cincin- nati Law school, 1864-84, and emeritus professor.

1884-95. lie r.-.-ei Adeibi'rt in 1875. Dartiuoutii in 1887 !\Iareli, 'i887, when

i-e i the degree of LL.D. from

from Yale in 18S4. and from

He reinoveil to New York in

' he had a successful practice.

Li 1851 married Marj' Burnet, daughter of Capt. Samuel Perry, a pioneer citizen of Cincinnati, Ohio. He died m Watkins, N.Y., Aug. 27, 1902.

HOAR, Ebenezer Rockwood, cabinet ofncer, was born in Concord.:Mass., Fd). 2i, 1816; son of Samuel (<i.v.) and Sarah (Slierman) Hoar, and grandson of Capt. Samuel Hoar, and of Roger Sherman. He was graduated at Harvard A. B., in 1835, and LL.B. in 1839. He practised law in Con- cord and in Boston, 1839-59; was judge of the court of common pleas, 1849-55, and of the su- preme court of Massachusetts, 1859-69. President Grant appointed him attornej-general in his cabi- net and he served from March 4, 1869, to June 23, 1870, when he resigned, and was succeeded by Amos T. Akerman of Georgia. He was then made a member of the joint high commission, to consider the Alabama claims, and conclude the treaty of Washington, which w-as ratified by the U.S. senate. May 24, 1871. He was a representa- tive in the 43d congress, 1873-75; a fellow of Harvard universit}% 1857-68; overseer, 1857-58, and president of the board of overseers, 1868-80 and 1881-87; member of the Massachusetts His- torical society and fellow^ of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received the degree of LL.D. from Williams in 1861 and from Harvard in 1868. He w^as married to Caroline Brooks. He died in Concord, Mass., Jan, 31, 1895.

HOAR, George Frisbie, senator, was born in Concord, Mass.. Aug. 29, 1826; so7i of Samuel and Sarah (Sherman) Hoar, and a direct descend- ant of John Hoar, son of Charles Hoare, sheriff of Gloucester, England. John Hoar emigrat- ed to America, settled at Scituate on the " Conihassett Grant," and removed to Con- cord about 1660. George Frisbie Hoar was graduated at Harvard, A.B., 1846, and LL.B., 1849, and was a practising law- yer in Worcester, Mass., 1849-68. He was city solicitor,

I860; president of ^^ Y- /-t^O-i^i^^ the board of trustees * ^

of the city library; a representative to the general court of Ma.ssachusetts, 1851; a mem- ber of the state senate, 1857, and a representative in the 41st, 42d, 43d and 44th congresses, 1869- 77, declining a nomination for the 45th congress.