Edwards Pierrepont

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American politician, lawyer and United States Attorney General (1817-1892)

United States PoliticiansLived 1817 to 1892 · aged 75

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S. S. S. Minister to England, and orator. Having graduated from Yale in 1837, Pierrepont studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1840. During the American Civil War, Pierrepont was a Democrat, although he supported President Abraham Lincoln.

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James PierepontOil portrait, Pierpont Limner, 1711

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Nast cartoon that lampooned Boss Tweed's Tammany Hall Ring.

President Ulysses S. Grant - Mathew Brady 1869

A cartoon that lampooned the Whiskey Ring.

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Wrangell Harbor, Alaska 1897

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Edwards Pierrepont was an American attorney, reformer, jurist, traveler, New York U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney General, U.S. Minister to England, and orator. Having graduated from Yale in 1837, Pierrepont studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1840. During the American Civil War, Pierrepont was a Democrat, although he supported President Abraham Lincoln. Pierrepont initially supported President Andrew Johnson's conservative Reconstruction efforts having opposed the Radical Republicans. In both 1868 and 1872, Pierrepont supported Ulysses S. Grant for president. For his support, President Grant appointed Pierrepont United States Attorney in 1869. In 1871, Pierrepont gained the reputation as a solid reformer, having joined New York's Committee of Seventy that shut down Boss Tweed's corrupt Tammany Hall. In 1872, Pierrepont modified his views on Reconstruction and stated that African American freedman's rights needed to be protected.

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