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George S. Boutwell was born on January 28, 1818 in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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George S. Boutwell was born on January 28, 1818 in Brookline, Massachusetts.
He was reared on a farm, and at an early age began a mercantile career at Groton, Massachussets. There he studied law and in 1836 was admitted to the bar, but did not begin practice for many years.
In 1851, however, by means of " Free-Soil " votes, he was chosen governor, and was re-elected by the same coalition in 1852.
He became a member of the Massachusetts Board of Education in 1853, and as its secretary in 1855-1861 prepared valuable reports and rendered much service to the state's school system.
In the following year he took an active part in the state constitutional convention.
Under an appointment by President Hayes, he prepared the second edition of the United States Revised Statutes (1878).
In 1862 Boutwell was admitted to the Massachusetts bar and in the same year entered national politics.
In 1880 he represented the United States before the commission appointed in accordance with the treaty of that year, between France and the United States, to decide the claims brought by French citizens against the United States for acts of the American authorities during the Civil War, and the claims of American citizens against France for acts of French authorities during the war between France and Mexico, the Franco-German War and the Commune.
He published various volumes, including The Constitution of the United States at the End of the First Century (1895), and Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs (2 vols. , New York, 1902).
Boutwell during the 1880s and 1890s practiced international and patent law from offices in Boston and Washington, D. C. His business included working for the United States and other national governments as counsel to several bilateral diplomatic commissions. In the first, running from 1880 to 1884, he represented the US in regard to claims involving France which mostly emanated from the Civil War. He next served as counsel for Haiti (1885), and then again for the US on a commission with Chile (1893–94), which addressed claims against both governments most of whose origins were in either the War of the Pacific or the Chilean Civil War of 1891.
He served as Secretary of the Treasury under President Ulysses S. Grant, the 20th Governor of Massachusetts, a Senator and Representative from Massachusetts and the first Commissioner of Internal Revenue under President Abraham Lincoln. As U. S. Senator, Boutwell sponsored the Civil Rights Act of 1875.
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In the 1840's he was elected to the state legislature as a Democrat and served for seven sessions until 1850.
During the next few years he helped organize the Massachusetts Republican Party.
Boutwell advocated reduction of national debt and the return of the nation's economy to one based on gold. Boutwell believed that the stabilization of the currency and the reduction of the national debt was more important than risking a depression by withdrawing greenbacks from the economy.
Boutwell married Sarah Adelia Thayer on July 8, 1841. Sarah was the daughter of Nathan Hayler from Hollis, New Hampshire. Their marriage produced two children: Georgianna (May 18, 1843) and Francis (February 26, 1847).
