George Frisbie Hoar (1826 - 1904)

Born 29 Aug 1826 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA

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Died 30 Sep 1904 at age 78 in Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

Preceded by George S. Boutwell

George Frisbie Hoar US Senator (Class 2) from Massachusetts 1877—1904

Succeeded by Winthrop M. Crane

Biography

George Hoar is Notable.

George Frisbie Hoar (August 29, 1826 – September 30, 1904) was a prominent United States politician and United States Senator from Massachusetts. Hoar was born in Concord, Massachusetts. He was a member of an extended family that was politically prominent in 18th and 19th century New England.

Hoar graduated from Harvard University in 1846, then studied at Harvard Law School and settled in Worcester, Massachusetts where he practiced law before entering politics. Initially a member of the Free Soil Party, he joined the Republican Party shortly after its founding, and was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1852), and the Massachusetts Senate (1857).

In 1865, Hoar was one of the founders of the Worcester County Free Institute of Industrial Science, now the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He represented Massachusetts as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1869 through 1877, then served in the U.S. Senate until his death. He was a Republican, who generally avoided party partisanship and did not hesitate to criticize other members of his party whose actions or policies he believed were in error.

Hoar was long noted as a fighter against political corruption, and campaigned for the rights of African Americans and Native Americans. He argued in the Senate in favor of Women's suffrage as early as 1886 and opposed the Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882. As a member of the Congressional Electoral Commission, he was involved with settling the highly disputed U.S. presidential election, 1876. He authored the Presidential Succession Act of 1886, and in 1888 he was chairman of the 1888 Republican National Convention.

Hoar family and relations

Through his mother, Sarah Sherman, G.F. Hoar was a grandson of prominent political figure, Roger Sherman and Sherman's second wife, Rebecca Minot Prescott. Roger Sherman signed the Articles of Confederation, United States Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution.

G.F. Hoar's father, Samuel Hoar, was a prominent lawyer who served on the Massachusetts state senate and the United States House of Representatives.

G.F. Hoar's brother Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar was an Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, one of Ulysses S. Grant's Attorneys General, and a nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court.

G.F. Hoar's first cousin Roger Sherman Baldwin was Governor of Connecticut and a U.S. Senator.

Another of G.F. Hoar's first cousins, William Maxwell Evarts was US Secretary of State, U.S. Attorney General and a U.S. Senator.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Frisbie_Hoar

Burial

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Find A Grave: Memorial #2835

Sources

• Wikipedia: George Frisbie Hoar
• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Autobiography of Seventy Years, George F. Hoar (1906)] Vol. 1, Page ?
• Nourse, Henry Stedman. The Ancestry of The Hoar Family in America, NEHGR (NEHGS, Boston, 1899) Vol. 53, Page 198.