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    Edwards Pierrepont (March 4, 1817 – March 6, 1892) was an American attorney, reformer, jurist, traveler, New York U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney General...
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  • State Senate Edwards Pierrepont (1817–1892), an American attorney, jurist, and orator Edwards County (disambiguation) (multiple) Edwards Islet (Ducie...
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    of Oregon Supreme Court Oregon December 14, 1871 April 25, 1875 33 Edwards Pierrepont Attorney U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York...
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    violence against black Southerners escalated, Grant's Attorney General Edwards Pierrepont told Republican Governor Adelbert Ames of Mississippi that the people...
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    Attorney General after he had made a Cabinet shift by appointing Edwards Pierrepont Minister to England. Taft was replaced by J. Donald Cameron as Secretary...
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    second term, Grant appointed reformers such as Benjamin Bristow, Edwards Pierrepont, and Zachariah Chandler who cleaned their respective departments of...
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  • presidential nominee in 1864 Joel Parker, Governor of New Jersey Edwards Pierrepont, appointed in 1875 as Attorney General by President Ulysses S. Grant...
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    Grant appointed reformer and famous New York lawyer Edwards Pierrepont for his replacement. Pierrepont made extensive investigations into the conduct of...
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    Whiskey Ring. However, when Bristow and Grant's Attorney General Edwards Pierrepont, another reforming Cabinet member, uncovered that Orville Babcock...
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    Grant Robert C. Schenck December 22, 1870 June 23, 1871 March 3, 1876 Edwards Pierrepont May 22, 1876 July 11, 1876 December 22, 1877 John Welsh November 9...
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    Surratt's trial, and district attorney E.C. Carrington, assisted by Edwards Pierrepont conducted the federal government's case against him. Surratt's lead...
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    Courtney Democratic Andrew Johnson 19 April 25, 1869 – July 20, 1870 Edwards Pierrepont Republican Ulysses S. Grant 20 July 20, 1870 – December 31, 1872 Noah...
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    his wife, writer Irene O'Garden. Edwards Pierrepont, prominent attorney, jurist, and orator. Built 1867 Hurst-Pierrepont Estate in Garrison. Andrew C. Revkin...
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    was designed by architect Alexander Jackson Davis (1803-1892) for Edwards Pierrepont (1817-1892) and built in 1867. It is a two-story brick Gothic villa...
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    Saint-Gaudens. In 1874, Edwards Pierrepont, a prominent New York reformer, hired Saint-Gaudens to create a marble bust of himself. Pierrepont, a phrenologist...
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    Pierpont Edwards (April 8, 1750 – April 5, 1826) was a delegate to the Congress of the Confederation and was a United States district judge of the United...
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    sent to the penitentiary. In July 1875, Bristow and Attorney General Edwards Pierrepont, working as Grant's anti-corruption team, met Grant, who was vacationing...
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  • been any judicial decision in regard to it. U.S. Attorney General Edwards Pierrepont, however, shared Edward Bates' opinion that those born in the country...
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    James Pierpont or Pierrepont (January 4, 1659 – November 22, 1714) was a Congregationalist minister who is credited with the founding of Yale University...
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  • Michael B. Mukasey (1967), 81st U.S. Attorney General, 2007–2009 Edwards Pierrepont (1840), 33rd U.S. Attorney General, 1875–1876[citation needed] Alphonso...
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  • of 1868) – Episcopal clergyman, archaeologist, professor, author Edwards Pierrepont (class of 1833) – New York Supreme Courtjustice; minister plenipotentiary...
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    clerks in the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Grant appointed reformers Edwards Pierrepont and Marshall Jewell as Attorney General and Postmaster General, respectively...
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    indicted and later acquitted in trial. Grant's new Attorney General Edwards Pierrepont and Bristow formed an anti-corruption team to weed out criminal activity...
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    three move realignment by President Grant. U.S. Attorney General Edwards Pierrepont was appointed Minister to England; Secretary Taft was appointed U...
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    leading reformers including Hamilton Fish, Benjamin Bristow, and Edwards Pierrepont. During his first administration Grant prosecuted and shut down the...
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    Ring run by "Boss" Tweed was broken by New York reformers including Edwards Pierrepont, Grant's future Attorney General, and prominent member of the Committee...
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    counsel for the Republicans, chemist Benjamin Silliman, Jr., and Edwards Pierrepont, later United States Attorney General. While at Yale he became a member...
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    Attendees included James G. Blaine, William M. Evarts, Edwin D. Morgan, Edwards Pierrepont, Hamilton Fish II, Frederick A. Conkling, and many other current and...
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    Secretary of the Treasury Benjamin Bristow, and U.S. Attorney General Edwards Pierrepont, all who desired to save Grant's reputation from scandal. While Grant...
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  • Colahan, Elbridge T. Gerry, Gideon J. Tucker, Samuel J. Tilden, Edwards Pierrepont, James Brooks, William Hitchman, Abraham B. Tappen, B. Platt Carpenter...
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