Wayne MacVeagh

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Wayne MacVeagh
United States Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire
In office
October 25, 1870 – June 10, 1871
PresidentUlysses S. Grant
Preceded byEdward Morris
Succeeded byGeorge Boker
Personal details
Born
Isaac Wayne MacVeagh

(1833-04-19)April 19, 1833
Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DiedJanuary 11, 1917(1917-01-11) (aged 83)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Political partyRepublican (before 1892, 1896–1917)
Democratic (1892–1896)
Spouse(s)
Letitia Miner Lewis
​
(m. 1856)​

Virginia Rolette Cameron
​
​
(m. 1866)​
RelationsFranklin MacVeagh (brother)
ChildrenCharles
EducationYale University (BA)
Signature
Military service
Allegiance United States
Branch/serviceMilitia
Union Army
Years of service1862–1863
Battles/warsAmerican Civil War

Isaac Wayne MacVeagh (April 19, 1833 – January 11, 1917) was an American lawyer, politician and diplomat. He served as the 36th Attorney General of the United States under the administrations of Presidents James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur.[1]

Biography

Early life

MacVeagh was born in

née Lincoln) McVeagh.[2] His brother, Franklin MacVeagh, was a Chicago wholesale grocer, banker and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President William Howard Taft
.

He attended

District Attorney of Chester County, Pennsylvania, from 1859 through 1864.[1][3] During the American Civil War he joined the emergency militia of Pennsylvania that was organized against the threat of Confederate invasion in 1862 and 1863. He raised an independent cavalry company and later served in the 29th Emergency Militia Regiment, reaching the rank of major.[1]

Politician and lawyer

MacVeagh became a leader in the

constitutional convention of 1872 and 1873.[3]

In 1875, MacVeagh co-founded the

Dechert LLP.[4] He also served as Chairman of the MacVeagh Commission, sent in 1877 by President Rutherford B. Hayes to Louisiana, which secured the settlement of the contest between two existing state governments and thus made possible the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the state.[3]

MacVeagh served as the 36th

Attorney General in 1881 under President James A. Garfield. He resigned after President Garfield's assassination.[3] Chester Arthur was to be 21st President and MacVeagh served as a cabinet member.[citation needed
]

In 1892, he supported

Ambassador to Italy. He returned to the Republican Party in 1896. In 1897, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.[5] In 1903, he was a chief counsel of the United States before the Hague tribunal in the case regarding the claims of Germany, Britain and Italy against the republic of Venezuela.[3]

After the outbreak of World War I MacVeagh championed the cause of the Allies in an article "The Impossible Chasm", contributed to the North American Review in July 1915. In his last article "Lusitania Day: May 7 1916", for the same magazine, he assailed the slowness of the American government in asserting its rights against Germany.[6]

Personal life

MacVeagh married Letitia Miner Lewis, in 1856. They had one son,

Ambassador to Japan
.

In 1866, after his first wife's death, he married Virginia Rolette Cameron,[citation needed] a daughter of U.S. Secretary of War Simon Cameron.[7]

MacVeagh died in Washington, D.C., on January 11, 1917.[8] He was buried at the Church of the Redeemer Cemetery in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Attorney General: Isaac Wayne MacVeagh". United States Department of Justice. Retrieved May 14, 2022.
  2. ^ Curtis, William E. (September 1, 1894). "Where the Winner was Born". Chicago Eagle. pp. 1, 10. Retrieved May 14, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ a b c d e  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "MacVeagh, Wayne". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 269.
  4. ^ Dechert company profile by Gale Group, courtesy of Answers.com
  5. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved March 1, 2024.
  6. ^  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). "MacVeagh, Wayne". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 31 (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company. p. 829.
  7. Archive.org.Open access icon
  8. ^ "Wayne MacVeagh Died Early Today". The Boston Globe. Washington. January 11, 1917. p. 5. Retrieved May 14, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.

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Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
United States Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire

October 25, 1870 – June 10, 1871 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
United States Ambassador to Italy

March 11, 1894 – March 4, 1897 		Succeeded by
Legal offices
Preceded by U.S. Attorney General
Served under: James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur
March 5, 1881 – December 15, 1881 		Succeeded by
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