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Choate, Joseph Hodges 1832-

Diplomatist; born in Salem, Mass., Jan. 24, 1832;

Joseph Hodges Choate.

graduated at Harvard University in 1852; admitted to the bar in 1855, and settled in New York to practise. He was employed in many famous lawsuits; was one of the committee of seventy which broke up the Tweed ring, and was instrumental in having Gen. Fitz-John Porter [148] reinstated in the army. In 1894 he was president of the New York Constitutional Convention, and in 1899 was appointed United States ambassador to England to succeed John Hay, appointed Secretary of State. In 1900 Cambridge University conferred upon him the degree of Ll. D. He is widely known as a public and afterdinner orator.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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