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William Maxwell Evarts (February 6, 1818 – February 28, 1901) 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.
In New York City, there is no park or high school named for, let alone a statue of, William Evarts. The only trace of this towering Gilded Age New York lawyer and statesman is found above the doors of two adjacent tenement buildings at Second Avenue and 14th Street.
William Maxwell Evarts was born in 1818 in Boston, Massachusetts. He attended the Boston Latin School and graduated from Yale College in 1833. Evarts studied law privately before attending Harvard Law School for one year.
Evarts led the American fundraising effort for the pedestal for the Statue of Liberty, serving as the chairman of the American Committee, and was a founding member of the New York City Bar Association, serving as its first president from 1870 to 1879. William M. Evarts died in New York City on February 28, 1901. Sources
William Maxwell Evarts (February 6, 1818 – February 28, 1901) 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.
Evarts, who is considered one of the greatest attorneys the country has known, was a New Englander who spent most of his active life in New York and Washington. He was a charter member of the Republican party, a supporter of Lincoln, secretary of state, United States senator, and the defender of many historical decisions.
1868-1869. U.S. Attorney General. 1868: Chief Counsel for President Andrew Johnson in Impeachment Proceedings. 1872: Counsel for the United States before the tribunal of arbitration on the Alabama claims at Geneva, Switzerland. 1876: Counsel for President Rutherford Hayes before the Electoral Commission. 1877-1881:
