Diplomatist; born in
New Orleans, La., Aug. 27, 1834; was educated in
Brookline, Mass., and in the Harvard Law School; was admitted to the bar in 1856, and practised in New Orleans till the beginning of the
Civil War, when he entered the Confederate army; served as judge-advocate on the staff of
General Magruder till 1862, and then on the staff of
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston.
When the war closed he entered the State legislature, where he served in each
House.
In 1876 he was elected to the United States Senate to fill a vacancy, and after the expiration of the term took a trip through
Europe.
Returning to the
United States, he was made
Professor of Civil Law in the
University of
Louisiana.
In 1884 he was again elected to the United States Senate, and became a member of the
committee on foreign relations.
He was appointed minister to
France in March, 1893, and had charge of the negotiations which finally secured the release of
John I. Waller, ex-United States consul in Madagascar, who had been convicted of illegally communicating with the Hovas during the
French campaign, and who had been sentenced to serve twenty-one years in prison.
After his return to the
United States, in 1897,
Mr. Eustis reentered law practice in New York.
He translated
Institutes of Justinian, and
Guizot's
History of the United States.
He died in
Newport, R. I., Sept. 9, 1899.
