George Frisbie Hoar was an American attorney and politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1877 until his death in 1904. He belonged to an extended family that became politically prominent in 18th- and 19th-century New England.
William Maxwell Evarts was an American lawyer and statesman from New York who served as U.S. Secretary of State,U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator from New York. He was renowned for his skills as a litigator and was involved in three of the most important causes of American political jurisprudence in his day:the impeachment of a president,the Geneva arbitration and the contests before the electoral commission to settle the presidential election of 1876.
The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts is the federal district court whose territorial jurisdiction is the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,United States. The first court session was held in Boston in 1789. The second term was held in Salem in 1790 and court session locations alternated between the two cities until 1813. That year,Boston became the court's permanent home. A western division was opened in Springfield in 1979 and a central division was opened in Worcester in 1987. The court's main building is the John Joseph Moakley Federal Courthouse on Fan Pier in South Boston.
Henry Sherman Boutell was an American lawyer and diplomat. He became a Congressman from Illinois,and Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Portugal by President William Howard Taft.
George Russell Stobbs was an attorney and politician. A Republican. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts for three terms.
Edgar Weeks was a military officer,judge and politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Frank Leslie Coombs was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as a congressman from California from 1901 to 1903.
William Irvin Swoope was an attorney and politician from Clearfield,Pennsylvania. A Republican,he served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1923 to 1927.
James Henry Duncan was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts.
Lunsford Lomax Lewis was a Virginia attorney,judge and political figure.
Dwight Foster was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts. He served as Massachusetts Attorney General and was an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
Henry Francis Naphen was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.
Samuel Wheeler Moulton was an educator,university trustee,attorney,state legislator,and U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Patrick Stevens Henry was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from Mississippi from 1901 to 1903.
Henry Gordon Wells was a lawyer and a Republican politician in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
William Henry Lewis was an African-American pioneer in athletics,law and politics. Born in Virginia to freedmen,he graduated from Amherst College in Massachusetts,where he had been one of the first African-American college football players. After going to Harvard Law School and continuing to play football,Lewis was the first African American in the sport to be selected as an All-American.
Benjamin Kinsman Phelps was an American lawyer and district attorney in New York.
Asa Palmer French was an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts from 1906 to 1914.
C. Henry Glovsky was an American attorney and politician from Beverly,Massachusetts,who served in the Massachusetts General Court. He also played a role in the founding of the North Shore Music Theatre and Montserrat College of Art.
Winfield Scott Peters was an American lawyer and politician who served as District Attorney of Essex County,Massachusetts from 1899 to 1911.
