Joseph Hodges Choate
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For his son, the lawyer and activist, see Joseph H. Choate Jr.
Joseph Hodges Choate (January 24, 1832 – May 14, 1917) was an American lawyer and diplomat. He was chairman of the American delegation at the Second Hague Conference, and ambassador to the United Kingdom.[1]
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Joseph Hodges Choate | |
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United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom | |
In office March 6, 1899 – May 23, 1905 | |
Monarchs | 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 | (1832-01-24)January 24, 1832 Salem, Massachusetts |
Died | May 14, 1917(1917-05-14) (aged 85) Manhattan, New York City |
Resting place | Stockbridge Cemetery, Stockbridge, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts |
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Relatives | Mabel Choate (daughter) Joseph H. Choate Jr. (son) George C. S. Choate (brother) William Gardner Choate (brother) Rufus Choate (cousin) |
Alma mater | Harvard College Harvard Law School |
Profession | Politician, Diplomat |
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Choate was associated with many of the most famous litigations in American legal history, including the Kansas prohibition cases, the Chinese exclusion cases, the Isaac H. Maynard election returns case, the Income Tax Suit, and the Samuel J. Tilden, Jane Stanford, and Alexander Turney Stewart will cases. In the public sphere, he was influential in the founding of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[2]