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[Up] [Dromo's Den] Edwards Pierrepont Biography PIERREPONT,
Edwards (1817-92). An American lawyer and diplomat, born at North
Haven, Conn. He graduated at Yale in 1837, was admitted to the bar in 1840, and
practiced at Columbus, Ohio, until 1845, when be removed to New York. He was
elected judge of the Superior Court, New York, in 1857, but resigned in 1860 and
resumed his practice. In 1867 he conducted the case for the government against
John H. Surratt, indicted as an accomplice in the murder of Lincoln.
Appointed United States district attorney by President Grant
in 1869, he resigned a year later and then took an active part as one of the
Committee of Seventy in fighting the Tweed ring. He was
appointed Attorney-General of the United States in 1875 and in 1876-77 was
Minister to the Court of St, James. He published several pamphlets on financial
questions. The New International
Encyclopaedia, Vol. XVIII
(New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920)
613.
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