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Wharton, Francis 1820-1889
Jurist; born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 7, 1820; graduated at Yale University in 1839; admitted to the bar and began practice in Philadelphia in 1843; was Professor of Logic and Rhetoric in 1856-63; ordained in the Protestant Episcopal Church, and became rector of St. Paul's Church, Brookline, Mass., in 1863; Professor of Canon Law, Polity, and Apologetics in the Cambridge Episcopal Seminary in 1866; and became editor of the Revolutionary diplomatic correspondence of the United States by an act of Congress, in 1888.
He died in Washington, D. C., Feb. 21, 1889.