Background
William Morris Meredith was born on June 8, 1799, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was the son of William Meredith and Gertrude Gouverneur Ogden and the grandson of Jonathan Meredith who emigrated from Wales about 1755.
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Eulogium on the Character and Services of the Late John Sergeant: Pronounced at the Request of the Select and Common Councils of the City of ... of Citizens, April 22, 1853 (Classic Reprint)
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Eulogium On The Character And Services Of John Sergeant (1853)
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British violin-makers classical and modern: being a biographical and critical dictionary of British makers of the violin from the foundation of the ... school to the end of the nineteenth century
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British Violin Makers: Classical And Modern (1904)
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An oration delivered by request before the Whigs of Philadelphia, on the fourth of July, 1834
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The renaissance and Welsh literature: being a review of some of the Welsh classics in the light of the humanistic movement
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Walter H. Mayson: An Account of the Life and Work of a Celebrated Modern Violin Maker
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William Morris Meredith
Edit ProfileEducation
Meredith's father was a prominent lawyer and bank president who so educated his precocious son that he was able to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania at the age of thirteen.
Career
In December 1817, William was admitted to the bar and then was forced to pay the penalty of his rapid advance. He had to wait a long time for a successful practice. Finally, he became associated with John Sergeant and Horace Binney in the famous Girard will case and thereafter his fame grew until he became one of the leaders of the Philadelphia bar. While waiting for legal opportunity, he entered politics. He served in the legislature, 1824-28, and from 1834 to 1849 was president of the select council of Philadelphia. When the Whig party was formed he became a member and allied himself with the faction opposed to Thaddeus Stevens and to the anti-Masonic element. In the state constitutional convention of 1837 he attracted considerable attention by a vigorous attack upon Stevens. When the Whigs triumphed in 1840, Harrison appointed Meredith, on March 15, 1841, United States attorney for the eastern district of Pennsylvania, an office which he held only a year. In 1849 he was defeated for the United States Senate by a fellow Whig, James Cooper, but shortly thereafter his greatest honor came to him. President-Elect Taylor wished a Pennsylvanian for his cabinet, a wish complicated by a factional war in the party. In March 1849 he chose Meredith, a moderate Whig, for his secretary of the treasury, in spite of the fact that the Whig congressmen recommended Andrew Stewart. In this office, Meredith's principal achievement was his annual report in which he set forth an elaborate argument for a protective tariff. He shared Taylor's disapproval of the compromise measures of 1850 and when the President died joined his colleagues in retiring (July 1850). When the opponents of the Democratic organization in Pennsylvania formed the Opposition or People's party in the days before the Civil War, Meredith joined the new group. He acted as a delegate to the Peace Convention of 1861 and Governor Curtin made him attorney-general of the state, 1861-67. When the Union League Club formed in Philadelphia, he became its first president. He was appointed one of the counsel of the United States in the Alabama claims case, but, after aiding in the preparation of the briefs, retired, not wishing to go to Geneva. His last service was as president of the state constitutional convention (November 1872 - June 1873) when, in spite of ill health, he remained in this trying position till a few weeks before his death. He died in Philadelphia.
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William M. Meredith is known as the presidential cabinet secretary. He was a delegate to the Pennsylvania state constitutional convention in 1837. William was named U. S. District Attorney for the Eastern part of Pennsylvania in 1840 as a reward for his lobbying on behalf of William Henry Harrison for President. As the President Zachary Taylor's Secretary of the Treasury, he tried to prevent the South's secession. Meredith received one of only two 1849 Double Eagles while serving as Treasury Secretary. That 1849 Double Eagle is a pattern coin. The other coin is on display at the Smithsonian Institution. The coin was auctioned as part of his estate but its subsequent whereabouts are unknown.
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Eulogium on the Character and Services of the Late John Sergeant: Pronounced at the Request of the Select and Common Councils of the City of ... of Citizens, April 22, 1853 (Classic Reprint)
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An oration delivered by request before the Whigs of Philadelphia, on the fourth of July, 1834
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Walter H. Mayson: An Account of the Life and Work of a Celebrated Modern Violin Maker
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British violin-makers classical and modern: being a biographical and critical dictionary of British makers of the violin from the foundation of the ... school to the end of the nineteenth century
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The renaissance and Welsh literature: being a review of some of the Welsh classics in the light of the humanistic movement
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Eulogium On The Character And Services Of John Sergeant (1853)
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British Violin Makers: Classical And Modern (1904)
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Eulogium on the Character and Services of the Late John Sergeant: Pronounced at the Request of the Select and Common Councils of the City of ... of Citizens, April 22, 1853 (Classic Reprint)
Connections
On June 17, 1834, William married Catherine, daughter of Michael Keppele.
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Republican