Joseph Hodges Choate
| Joseph Hodges Choate | |
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Joseph Hodges Choate, 1898
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| United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom | |
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In office March 6, 1899 – May 23, 1905 |
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| Monarch |
Victoria Edward VII |
| President |
William McKinley Theodore Roosevelt |
| Prime Minister |
The Marquess of Salisbury Arthur Balfour |
| Preceded by | John Hay |
| Succeeded by | Whitelaw Reid |
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| Born |
January 24, 1832 Salem, Massachusetts |
| Died | May 14, 1917 (aged 85) Manhattan, New York City |
| Resting place | Stockbridge Cemetery, Stockbridge, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts |
| Spouse(s) | Carolyn Dutcher Sterling |
| Parents | George Choate |
| Relatives |
George C. S. Choate, brother Rufus Choate, first cousin once removed |
| Alma mater | Harvard College, Harvard Law School |
| Profession | Politician, Diplomat |
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Joseph Hodges Choate (January 24, 1832 – May 14, 1917) was an American lawyer and diplomat. Choate was associated with many of the most famous litigations in American legal history, including the Kansas prohibition cases, the Chinese exclusion cases, the Maynard election returns case, the Income Tax Suit, and the Tilden, Stanford, and AT Stewart will cases. In the public sphere, he was influential in the founding of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Choate was born in Salem, Massachusetts, on January 24, 1832. He was the son of Margaret Manning (Hodges) and physician George Choate, and the brother of physician George Cheyne Shattuck Choate. His father's first cousin was Rufus Choate. After graduating from Harvard College in 1852 and Harvard Law School in 1854, he was admitted first to the Massachusetts (1855) and then (1856) to the New York bar, and entered the law office of Scudder & Carter in New York City.
His success in his profession was immediate, and in 1860 he became junior partner in the firm of Evarts, Southmayd & Choate, the senior partner in which was William M. Evarts. This firm and its successor, that of Evarts, Choate & Beaman, remained for many years among the leading law firms of New York and of the country, the activities of both being national rather than local.
On October 16, 1861, he married Caroline Dutcher Sterling.
During these busy years, Choate was associated with many of the most famous litigations in American legal history, including the Tilden, A.T. Stewart, and will cases, the Kansas prohibition cases, the Chinese exclusion cases, the Maynard election returns case, and the Income Tax Suit. In 1871 be became a member of the Committee of Seventy in New York City, which was instrumental in breaking up the Tweed Ring, and later assisted in the prosecution of the indicted officials. He served as president of the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, and the New York City Bar Association. In the retrial of the General Fitz-John Porter case he obtained a reversal of the decision of the original court-martial.
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