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Joseph Hodges Choate (January 24, 1832 – May 14, 1917) was an American lawyer and diplomat. He was chairman of the American delegation at the Second Hague Conference, and ambassador to the United Kingdom.
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This lawyer, who grew up in Salem, Massachusetts, battled Tammany Hall in New York before he became U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain. He settled the Alaska-Canada dispute and negotiated the Open Door Policy in China.
11 de jun. de 2018 · Joseph H. Choate (1832-1917), a diplomat and lawyer, was considered the quintessential New Englander, though much of his life was spent in New York City at the apogee of America's Gilded Age.
Joseph Hodges Choate Jr. (February 2, 1876 – January 19, 1968), was an American lawyer who chaired the Voluntary Committee of Lawyers, a group established in 1927 that promoted the repeal of prohibition. Upon repeal in 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt named Choate the first head of the Federal Alcohol Control Administration (FACA).
A highly conservative lawyer and leader of the American bar, Joseph Hodges Choate often appeared before the Supreme Court in defense of property interests and removed from the concerns of a populace he inimitably referred to as the "Great Unwashed."
JOSEPH HODGES CHOATE: TWENTY-FIRST PRESIDENT OF ASSOCIATION. By William V. Rowe. Member of New York and Massachusetts Bars. MR. CHOATE was the twenty-first president of in the office-routine of the old student-days in the the American Bar Association.
In 1897, Choate was a candidate for the Republican U.S. senatorial nomination for New York, and in 1894 he was president of the New York state constitutional convention. In 1899 he was appointed to U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom and served until 1905.
