Wayne MacVeagh
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| United States Ambassador to Italy | |
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| President | Grover Cleveland |
| Preceded by | William Potter |
| Succeeded by | William Draper |
| 36th United States Attorney General | |
| In office Template:En dash range | |
| President | James A. Garfield Chester A. Arthur |
| Preceded by | Charles Devens |
| Succeeded by | Benjamin H. Brewster |
| United States Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire | |
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| President | Ulysses S. Grant |
| Preceded by | Edward Morris |
| Succeeded by | George Boker |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Isaac Wayne MacVeagh Script error: No such module "person date". |
| Died | Script error: No such module "person date". Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Party | Republican (before 1892, 1896–1917) Democratic (1892–1896) |
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Letitia Miner Lewis
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| Relations | Franklin MacVeagh (brother) |
| Children | Charles |
| Education | Yale University (BA) |
| Signature | File:Signature of Isaac Wayne MacVeagh (1833–1917).png |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  United States |
| Branch/service | Militia Union Army |
Years of service | 1862–1863 |
| Rank | Major |
| Battles/wars | American Civil War |
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Isaac Wayne MacVeagh (April 19, 1833 – January 11, 1917) was an American lawyer, politician and diplomat. He served as the 36th Attorney General of the United States under the administrations of Presidents James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur.[1]
Biography
Early life
MacVeagh was born in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, on April 19, 1833, the son of Major MacVeagh and Margaret (née Lincoln) McVeagh.[2] His brother, Franklin MacVeagh, was a Chicago wholesale grocer, banker and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President William Howard Taft.
He attended Yale University, where he was a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Phi chapter), and graduated tenth in his class in 1853. He was admitted to the bar in 1856, and was the District Attorney of Chester County, Pennsylvania, from 1859 through 1864.[1][3] During the American Civil War he joined the emergency militia of Pennsylvania that was organized against the threat of Confederate invasion in 1862 and 1863. He raised an independent cavalry company and later served in the 29th Emergency Militia Regiment, reaching the rank of major.[1]
Politician and lawyer
MacVeagh became a leader in the Republican Party, and was a prominent opponent of his father-in-law, Simon Cameron, in the fight within the party in 1871.[1] He was the Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in 1870 through 1871, and was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1872 and 1873.[3]
In 1875, MacVeagh co-founded the Philadelphia-based law firm known today as Dechert LLP.[4] He also served as Chairman of the MacVeagh Commission, sent in 1877 by President Rutherford B. Hayes to Louisiana, which secured the settlement of the contest between two existing state governments and thus made possible the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the state.[3]
MacVeagh served as the 36th Attorney General in 1881 under President James A. Garfield. He resigned after President Garfield's assassination.[3] Chester Arthur was to be 21st President and MacVeagh served as a cabinet member.[citation needed]
In 1892, he supported Grover Cleveland, the Democratic nominee for the presidency, and from 1893 to 1897 he served as Ambassador to Italy. He returned to the Republican Party in 1896. In 1897, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.[5] In 1903, he was a chief counsel of the United States before the Hague tribunal in the case regarding the claims of Germany, Britain and Italy against the republic of Venezuela.[3]
After the outbreak of World War I MacVeagh championed the cause of the Allies in an article "The Impossible Chasm", contributed to the North American Review in July 1915. In his last article "Lusitania Day: May 7, 1916", for the same magazine, he assailed the slowness of the American government in asserting its rights against Germany.[6]
Personal life
MacVeagh married Letitia Miner Lewis, in 1856. They had one son, Charles MacVeagh (June 6, 1860 – December 4, 1931), who became the Ambassador to Japan.
In 1866, after his first wife's death, he married Virginia Rolette Cameron,[citation needed] a daughter of U.S. Secretary of War Simon Cameron.[7]
MacVeagh died in Washington, D.C., on January 11, 1917.[8] He was buried at the Church of the Redeemer Cemetery in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
See also
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References
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- ^ a b c d Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Attorney General: Isaac Wayne MacVeagh". United States Department of Justice. October 23, 2014. Retrieved May 14, 2022.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Curtis, William E. (September 1, 1894). "Where the Winner was Born". Chicago Eagle. pp. 1, 10. Retrieved May 14, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c d e One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Script error: No such module "template wrapper".
- ^ Dechert company profile by Gale Group, courtesy of Answers.com
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved March 1, 2024.
- ^ File:Wikisource-logo.svg One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Script error: No such module "template wrapper".
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Pennypacker, Samuel Whitaker (1872). Annals of Phoenixville and its Vicinity. Bavis & Pennypacker. p. 217. Retrieved December 16, 2023 – via Archive.org.Open access icon
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Wayne MacVeagh Died Early Today". The Boston Globe. Washington. January 11, 1917. p. 5. Retrieved May 14, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
External links
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- The MacVeagh Family Papers, including papers, notes, newspaper clippings and correspondence spanning much of Wayne MacVeagh's life, are available for research use at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
- Wayne MacVeagh at Find a GraveTemplate:Edit at Wikidata
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