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Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar was born on February 21, 1816 in Concord, Massachussets, United States. He was the son of Samuel Hoar and brother of George Frisbie Hoar. His mother was Sarah, the daughter of Roger Sherman.
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Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar was born on February 21, 1816 in Concord, Massachussets, United States. He was the son of Samuel Hoar and brother of George Frisbie Hoar. His mother was Sarah, the daughter of Roger Sherman.
Hoar graduated from Harvard College in 1835 as Bachelor of Arts, taught a year, began to read law in his father's office, and continued in the Harvard Law School, where he received the degree of Bachelor of Law in 1839.
Hoar rapidly rose to eminence in practice, being associated in various cases with Choate and with Webster. He entered politics in 1840 as a delegate to the Whig young men's convention for Middlesex County. Five years later he was one of the organizers of an anti-annexation meeting at which was adopted a pledge written by himself and Henry Wilson to "use all practicable means for the extinction of slavery on the American Continent. " A few months later as an anti-slavery Whig he was elected to the Massachusetts Senate, where his declaration that he would rather be a "Conscience Whig" than a "Cotton Whig" gave the slogan to the anti-slavery movement, of which he became a leader. His call to the people of Massachusetts in protest against the nomination of Taylor for president led to the Free Soil convention at Worcester on June 28, 1848.
In 1849 he was appointed a judge of the court of common pleas. One of the notable features of his service on the bench was his charge to the grand jury in the trial of the men who attempted to free the fugitive slave, Anthony Burns. In 1855 he resigned to resume practice but in 1859 he became an associate justice of the supreme judicial court of Massachusetts, a position which he held for a decade. Then called by President Grant to the post of attorney-general, he proved one of the most effective department heads. He exerted his influence against the recognition of the Cuban insurgents as belligerents. When nine new circuit judgeships were created, Hoar's sturdy insistence that these positions be filled by men of high character and fitness was keenly resented by many senators who wished to treat them as patronage. Accordingly, a few months later when the President nominated him for a seat upon the supreme bench, the Senate rejected the nomination, ostensibly because he did not live in the district to which he was to be assigned. "What could you expect from a man who had snubbed seventy Senators!" said Simon Cameron. The charge that Grant and Hoar connived to pack the Supreme Court so as to obtain a reversal of its stand upon the legal-tender issue has been conclusively refuted.
In 1870, with dignified loyalty to his chief, he retired from the cabinet when Grant sought to secure the support of some Southern senators who were demanding that the Attorney General be displaced by a man from the South; but the next year he yielded to Grant's request to serve as a member of the joint high commission which framed the Treaty of Washington to settle the Alabama claims. He served a single term in Congress (1873-1875), where his brother, George F. Hoar, was one of his colleagues. Here he opposed the Sherman Resumption Bill and the Force Bill. He was a valuable member of the committee to which was referred the revision of the United States statutes and he served as a regent of the Smithsonian Institution. At the end of his term he returned to Concord.
In 1876 he was induced to enter the campaign as a candidate for Congress against Benjamin F. Butler, to whose influence in national and in state politics he had for many years been the most vigorous opponent, but he was heavily defeated by that astute politician.
In his later years he declined to reenter public service though urged to be a member of the commission to investigate governmental conditions in Louisiana and to act as counsel for the United States before the fishery commission.
Hoar was a devoted son of Harvard College, serving for nearly thirty years either as overseer or as member of the corporation. In the American Unitarian Association he was a dominant force. At the bar he was noted for the closeness of his reasoning and the keenness of his wit. He was also active in the Republican Party and was a delegate to several Republican national conventions.
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Originally Hoar was a Whig, but he switched to the Republican Party in 1854. As a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1876, he supported Bristow till the last ballot, when he voted for Hayes. In 1884 he supported Blaine.
For nearly forty years Hoar was a member of the Saturday Club, which numbered many of the brightest intellects in New England.
On November 20, 1840, Hoar married Caroline Downes Brooks. Of their seven children, the youngest, Sherman Hoar, was elected as representative to Congress in 1890, third of the family in direct descent to hold that position.
