Edward Everett
United States Minister to the United Kingdom | |
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In office December 16, 1841 – August 8, 1845 | |
Nominated by | John Tyler |
Preceded by | Andrew Stevenson |
Succeeded by | Louis McLane |
15th Governor of Massachusetts | |
In office January 13, 1836 – January 18, 1840 | |
Lieutenant | George Hull |
Preceded by | Samuel Turell Armstrong (Acting) |
Succeeded by | Marcus Morton |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 4th district | |
In office March 4, 1825 – March 3, 1835 | |
Preceded by | Timothy Fuller |
Succeeded by | Samuel Hoar |
Personal details | |
Born | Dorchester, Massachusetts, U.S. | April 11, 1794
Died | January 15, 1865 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. | (aged 70)
Political party | National Republican (Before 1834) Whig (1834–1854) Constitutional Union (1860–1864) National Union (1864–1865) |
Spouse | Charlotte Gray Brooks |
Children | 6 |
Relatives | Alexander Hill Everett (Brother) Edward Everett Hale (Nephew) Lucretia Peabody Hale (niece) Susan Hale (niece) Charles Hale (nephew) |
Education | Harvard University (BA, MA) University of Göttingen (PhD) |
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Edward Everett (April 11, 1794 – January 15, 1865) was an American politician,
Everett was one of the great American orators of the antebellum and Civil War eras. He was the featured orator at the dedication ceremony of the Gettysburg National Cemetery in 1863, where he spoke for over two hours—immediately before President Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous two-minute Gettysburg Address.
The son of a pastor, Everett was educated at Harvard, and briefly ministered at Boston's Brattle Street Church before taking a teaching job at Harvard. The position included preparatory studies in Europe, so Everett spent two years in studies at the University of Göttingen, and another two years traveling around Europe. At Harvard he taught ancient Greek literature for several years before starting an extensive and popular speaking career. He served ten years in the United States Congress before winning election as Governor of Massachusetts in 1835. As Governor he introduced the state Board of Education, the first of its type in the nation. In 1831, he was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society.[1]
After being narrowly defeated in the
Early life and education
Edward Everett was born on April 11, 1794, in
Everett attended Boston Latin School in 1805, and then briefly Phillips Exeter Academy, where his older brother Alexander Hill Everett was teaching.[5] At the age of 13, he was admitted to Harvard College. In 1811, at age 17, he graduated as the valedictorian of his class. Unlike some of the other students at the time, Everett was an earnest and diligent student who absorbed all of what was taught.[6] While a student, he was a member of the Porcellian Club,[citation needed] and of the Hasty Pudding Club.[7]
Pastor and student
Uncertain what to do next, Everett was encouraged by his pastor, Joseph Stevens Buckminster of the Brattle Street Church, to study for the ministry. This Everett did under the tutelage of Harvard President John Thornton Kirkland, earning his MA in 1813. During this time in particular he developed a facility for working with both the written and spoken word.[8] The Reverend Buckminster died in 1812, and Everett was immediately offered the post at the Brattle Street Church on a probationary basis after his graduation, which was made permanent in November 1813.[9] Everett dedicated himself to the work, and became a highly popular Unitarian preacher. Listeners wrote of his "florid and affluent fancy", and his "daring imagery", while one critic wrote what would become a common criticism of his speaking style: "[Everett] spoke like some superior intelligence, discoursing to mortals of what they ought to feel and know, but as if [he] himself were too far exalted to require such feelings, and such knowledge himself."[10] Everett, over the year he served in the pulpit, came to be disenchanted with the somewhat formulaic demands of the required oratory, and with the sometimes parochial constraints the congregation placed on him.[11]
The workload also took its toll on young Everett, who around this time acquired the nickname "Ever-at-it", which would be used throughout his life.[12] For a change of pace, Everett traveled to Washington, D.C., where he visited with Daniel Webster and other Federalist Party luminaries from Massachusetts.[13] In late 1814 Everett was offered a newly endowed position as professor of Greek literature at Harvard. The position came with authorization to travel for two years in Europe, and Everett readily accepted. He was formally invested as a professor in April 1815.[14] Everett was also elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1815.[15]
Everett made his way across western Europe, visiting
During his sojourn at Göttingen, Everett traveled to see other German cities, including Hanover, Weimar, Dresden, and Berlin. He received permission from Harvard to extend his time in Europe, and spent two more years traveling across the continent (from Constantinople and the Black Sea to Paris), visiting the major cities of the continent before returning to the United States in 1819.[17] Among those he met in England were the Prussian diplomat Wilhelm von Humboldt, an influential architect of the Prussian education system, and William Wilberforce, a leading English abolitionist.[18] While in Constantinople Everett acquired a number of ancient Greek texts which are now in the Harvard archives.[19]
Teacher, writer, and speaker
Everett took up his teaching duties later in 1819, hoping to implant the scholarly methods of Germany at Harvard and bring a generally wider appreciation of German literature and culture to the United States.
In 1820 Everett was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[24] That year he became editor of the North American Review, a literary magazine to which he had contributed articles while studying in Europe. In addition to editing he made numerous contributions to the magazine, which flourished during his tenure and reached a nationwide audience.[25][26] He was also instrumental in expanding Harvard's collections of German language works, including grammars, lexicons, and a twenty-volume edition of the collected works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, whom Everett had visited in Weimar and whose works he championed on the pages of the Review.[27]
I die daily of a cramped spirit, fluttering and beating from side to side of a cage.
—Everett, describing how he felt about teaching in 1821[28]
Everett began his public speaking career while he taught at Harvard, which combined with his editorship of the Review to bring him some national prominence.
Everett delivered speeches commemorating the opening battles of the American Revolution in Concord, Massachusetts in 1825 and Lexington, Massachusetts in 1835.[32]
Marriage and children
On May 8, 1822, Everett married Charlotte Gray Brooks (1800–1859), a daughter of
The Everetts had a happy and fruitful marriage,[35] producing six children who survived infancy:[36]
- Anne Gorham Everett (1823–1843)[citation needed]
- Charlotte Brooks Everett (1825–1879); married Captain Henry Augustus Wise USN
- Grace Webster Everett (1827–1836)[37]
- Edward Brooks Everett (1830–1861); married Helen Cordis Adams
- Henry Sidney Everett (1834–1898); married Katherine Pickman Fay
- William Everett (1839–1910); U.S. Representative from Massachusetts[38]
Early political career
Everett had decided as early as 1821 that he was not interested in teaching.
The crowd reacted with lengthy applause, and not long afterward an informal non-partisan caucus nominated Everett as its candidate for the United States House of Representatives.[40] Other political factions also endorsed his candidacy, and he was easily elected in the November 1824 election.[41] He had expected to continue teaching at Harvard while serving, but was informed by its Board of Overseers that he had been dismissed because of the election victory. He took this news well, even agreeing to refund to the college the costs of his European travels.[42] He continued to remain associated with Harvard, joining the Board of Overseers in 1827 and serving for many years.[43]
United States representative
The political situation in the country was quite fluid in the late 1820s. The
In Congress Everett sat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and on the Committee on Libraries and Public Buildings, both of which he chaired in his last term.[44] Since he was already well known to President Adams, he was a frequent guest at the White House, and came to champion the president's agenda in the House.[45] He supported tariff legislation that protected Massachusetts' growing industrial interests, favored renewal of the charter of the Second Bank of the United States, and opposed the Indian Removal Act.[46]
Everett's most controversial action in Congress took place relatively early during his tenure there. In 1826 Congress debated a Constitutional amendment to alter the way the president was elected, so that Congress would not be required to decide (as it had in
Reaction to this speech was highly critical, and Everett was attacked by political friends and foes for this apparent endorsement of slavery.[49] He attempted to justify his statements by pointing out that he rejected the slave trade and the act of kidnapping someone into slavery, but this did not mitigate the damage, and he was heavily criticized for it in the Massachusetts press. Everett would be dogged by the speech for the rest of his political career.[50]
Governor of Massachusetts
Everett retired from Congress in 1835, after deciding that he did not really like the rough-and-tumble nature of the proceedings in the House.[51] He had been offered the nomination for governor of Massachusetts by the Anti-Masonic Party in 1834; although he was known to be against secret societies like the Freemasons, he refused, and supported Whig John Davis for governor that year. Davis won the election, which was held in November 1834.[52] In February 1835, the state legislature elected Davis to the United States Senate. In an arrangement brokered in part by Daniel Webster, Everett was promised the Whig nomination for governor (a move that upset Lieutenant Governor Samuel Turell Armstrong, who also sought the nomination). Everett easily defeated the perennial Democratic Party candidate, Marcus Morton, in November 1835.[53][54] He was re-elected by comfortable margins in the three following years, all facing Morton.[55]
In 1836 he was elected a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts.
One of the most notable achievements of Everett's tenure was the introduction of a state board of education to improve school quality and the establishment of normal schools for the training of teachers. Based on details of the Prussian education system which Everett had learned about, this groundbreaking accomplishment would be emulated by other states. The state Board of Education was established in 1837, with reformer Horace Mann as its secretary. The state's first normal school opened in Lexington the next year (it afterward moved to Framingham and is now known as Framingham State University).[56]
Other accomplishments during Everett's tenure include the authorization of an extension of the railroad system from Worcester to the New York state line,[57] and assistance in the quieting of border tensions between Maine and the neighboring British (now Canadian) province of New Brunswick. Massachusetts was involved in this dispute because, as part of Maine's separation from the state in 1820, it retained ownership of public lands in the disputed area. The border issue had been simmering for some years, but tensions rose substantially in the late 1830s as both sides pushed development activity into the disputed area, and the United States refused to accept a mediation proposal made by the Dutch king. In 1838 Everett proposed to President Martin Van Buren that a special commission be established to address the issue.[58]
Diplomatic service
After leaving office, Everett traveled in Europe with his family for several months. When the Whigs, led by
Another major issue between the countries was the seizure of American ships by British naval forces interdicting the slave trade off the coast of Africa. Owners of ships accused but acquitted of complicity in the trade filed claims to recover their losses with the British government, and Everett, as ambassador, advanced these cases.[66] In this he was generally successful, given the friendly British stance. One aspect of the slave trade interdiction proposed by Everett found its way into the treaty negotiated by Webster: the stationing of an American squadron off the coast of Africa to cooperate with the British effort.[67] The issue of slaving-related seizures caused some friction at home, especially after Webster was replaced as Secretary of State by a succession of Southern politicians. Everett in particular had to school John C. Calhoun on the diplomatic ramifications of pursuing claims after slaves mutinied aboard a ship plying the American coast and sailed it to the Bahamas.[68]
Everett rebuffed several offers for other diplomatic posts proffered by Webster, who was unhappy serving under Tyler and apparently sought the UK ambassadorship as a way to distance himself from the unpopular president; Webster eventually resigned in 1843.[69] Everett remained at his post until 1845, when after the accession of James K. Polk to the presidency he was replaced by Democrat Louis McLane.[70] His last months in the post were occupied with the Oregon boundary dispute, which was eventually resolved by McLane along lines negotiated by Everett.[71]
Harvard presidency
Even before his departure from London, Everett was being considered as a possible successor to Josiah Quincy as President of Harvard. Everett returned to Boston in September 1845 to learn that the Overseers had offered him the post. Although he had some misgivings, principally due to some of the tedious aspects of the job and difficult matter of maintaining student discipline, he accepted the offer, and entered into his duties in February 1846.
The three years he spent there were extremely unhappy.
Everett's unhappiness with the post was apparent early on, and by April 1847 he was negotiating with Harvard's overseers about the conditions of the job.[75] These talks were ultimately unfruitful, and Everett, on the advice of his doctor, resigned the post in December 1848.[76] He had been suffering for sometime from a number of maladies, some of them prostate-related. In the following years, his health would become increasingly fragile.[77] He was somewhat rejuvenated by a visit to the springs at Sharon Springs, New York.[78]
Secretary of state and U.S. senator
When the Whigs won the 1848 national election and returned to power in 1849, Everett returned to politics. He served as an aide to Daniel Webster, who President Millard Fillmore appointed Secretary of State. When Webster died in October 1852, Fillmore appointed Everett, apparently at Webster's request, to serve as Secretary of State during the remaining lame-duck months of his administration. In this post Everett drafted the official letter that accompanied the Perry Expedition to Japan, reversed Webster's claim denying Peruvian sovereignty over the guano-rich Lobos Islands, and refused to engage the United States in an agreement with the United Kingdom and France to guarantee Spanish control of Cuba.[79] Although he stated that the Fillmore administration had no interest in annexing Cuba, he made it clear that the U.S. did not want to foreclose the option by engaging in an essentially political alliance, and reinforced the notion that the U.S. saw Cuba as its concern and not a matter for outside interference.[80]
While he was still serving as secretary of state, Everett was approached by Massachusetts Whig leaders about running for the United States Senate. He was elected by the state legislature, and took the office on March 4, 1853.[81] In the Senate he sat on the Foreign Relations Committee, and on the Committee on Territories.[82] He was opposed to the extension of slavery in the western territories, but was concerned that the radical Free Soil Party's hardline stance would result in disunion.[83] The aloofness that characterized Everett's style in the pulpit decades before remained in evidence during these years. At President Pierce's White House socials, wrote one observer, Everett seemed as "cold-blooded and impassible, bright and lonely as the gilt weather-cock over the church in which he officiated ere he became a politician."[84]
Everett opposed the 1854 Kansas–Nebraska Act, which allowed the territories to choose whether to allow slavery by popular vote, calling it a "horrible" and "detested" bill.[85] However, because of his health he missed a critical vote on the bill, departing the chamber during a debate that ended up lasting all night.[86] This angered Massachusetts anti-slavery interests, who sent him a strongly-worded petition to submit to the Senate. Because of his distaste for the more extreme elements in the abolition debate, Everett's speech in support of the petition was weak, for which he was further criticized.[87] The rancor of the situation greatly upset Everett, and he submitted his resignation letter on May 12, 1854, after only a little more than one year into his six-year term, once again citing poor health.[88]
Last years
Free of political obligations, Everett traveled the country with his family, giving public speeches. One cause he took up was the preservation of
Everett was disheartened by the sectional divisions between the Northern and Southern states during the late 1850s.[91] In 1859 he was the keynote speaker at an anti-John Brown rally that filled Faneuil Hall to capacity.[92][93]
The 1860 election threatened to produce a national crisis, with pro-slavery Southerners splitting the Democratic Party and threatening secession if a Republican were to be elected president. A group of conservative ex-Whigs organized the Constitutional Union Party, which claimed as its sole principle the preservation of the Union.[94] Supporters of Everett put his name forward as a candidate for president, but the party ended up nominating John Bell, and Everett for vice president. Everett reluctantly accepted the post, but did not campaign very much. The Bell–Everett ticket received only 39 electoral votes, all from Southern states.[95]
In the wake of the election of Abraham Lincoln, seven Southern states began seriously debating secession.[96] Everett was an active participant in advancing the unsuccessful Crittenden Compromise in a last-ditch attempt to avoid war during the early months of 1861.[97] When the American Civil War broke out in April 1861, he became an active supporter of the Union cause. He did not at first think highly of Lincoln, but came to support him as the war progressed.[98] In 1861 and 1862 Everett toured the Northern states, lecturing on the causes of the war, and also wrote on behalf of the Union cause for the New York Ledger.[99] Proposals were put forward that Everett serve as a roving ambassador in Europe to counter Confederate diplomatic initiatives, but these were never brought to fruition.[100]
In November 1863, when the military cemetery at
Death
On January 9, 1865, at the age of 70, Everett spoke at a public meeting in Boston to raise funds for the southern poor in Savannah.[106] At that meeting he caught a cold, which turned into pneumonia four days later, after he had testified for three hours in a civil dispute concerning property he owned in Winchester, Massachusetts.[107] Everett wrote a letter to the publishers N. A. & R. A. the morning of his death, in which he said: "I have been very ill."[108] He died in Boston on January 15, and was interred at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge.[109]
Legacy
Edward Everett Square, near his birthplace in Dorchester, is named for him. It is the intersection of Columbia Road, Massachusetts Avenue, East Cottage Street and Boston Street. A marker is placed near where his birthplace stood, and a statue of Everett stands near the square in Richardson Park.[110] Everett's name appears on the facade of the Boston Public Library's McKim Building,[111] which he helped found, serving for twelve years as president of its board.[112] His name was also given to his nephew, Edward Everett Hale, as well as Hale's grandson, the actor Edward Everett Horton.[113][114]
Everett, Massachusetts, separated from Malden in 1870, was named in his honor,[115] as was the borough of Everett, Pennsylvania,[116] and Mount Everett in western Massachusetts.[117] Elementary schools in Dorchester[118] and in Lincoln, Nebraska[119] are named for him, as was a school in St. Cloud, Minnesota that was torn down in 1887. Everett donated 130 books to St. Cloud, beginning the community's first library.[120] The Edward Everett House, located at 16 Harvard Street in Charlestown, was designated as a Boston Landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission in 1996.[citation needed]
In popular culture
- In the 2015 documentary film The Gettysburg Address, Edward Everett is portrayed by actor Ed Asner.
- In the 1992 George McClellan's Independent campaign in the 1864 presidential election. The ticket comes in last in the popular votes but third in the electoral votes. They win 7.1% of the popular vote with 287,749 votes and get 10 electoral votes from the states of Delaware and New Jersey.
Publications
- Everett, Edward (1814). A Defence of Christianity Against the Works of George B. English. Boston: Hilliard and Metcalf. OCLC 2541810.
- Everett, Edward (1820). An Account of Some Greek Manuscripts, Procured at Constantinople in 1819 and now Belonging to the Library of the University at Cambridge. Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- Everett, Edward (1853). Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions, Volume 1. Boston: Little, Brown. OCLC 10559911.
- Everett, Edward (1850). Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions, Volume 2. Boston: Little, Brown. OCLC 457720654.
- Everett, Edward (1859). Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions, Volume 3. Boston: Little, Brown. OCLC 703424239.
- Everett, Edward (1868). Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions, Volume 4. Boston: Little, Brown. OCLC 703424868.
- Everett, Edward (1860). The Life of George Washington. New York: Sheldon and Company. OCLC 682585.
See also
- Manuscripts acquired by Everett in Constantinople
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Further reading
- Bush, Philippa Call; Everett, Anne Gorham (1857). Memoir of Anne Gorham Everett; With Extracts from Her Correspondence and Journal. Boston: self-published. ISBN 9780795015564.
- Mason, Matthew (2016). Apostle of Union: A Political Biography of Edward Everett. University of North Carolina Press.
External links
- Edward Everett at the Database of Classical Scholars
- Full text of Everett's Gettysburg Oration
- Biography
- Works by Edward Everett at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Edward Everett at Internet Archive
- United States Congress. "Edward Everett (id: E000264)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- Official Commonwealth of Massachusetts Governor Biography at Archive.org
- Edward Everett Papers at Harvard University Archives
- Oil portrait of Edward Everett by Bass Otis, at University of Michigan Museum of Art