William M. Evarts

William Maxwell Evarts (February 6, 1818–February 28, 1901) was an American lawyer and statesman. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of author, editor, and Indian removal opponent Jeremiah Evarts, and the grandson of Declaration of Independence signer Roger Sherman.

Extended family

William was a member of the extended Baldwin, Hoar & Sherman family, which had many members in American politics.

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U.S. Attorney General and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts Ebenezer R. Hoar and Evarts were best friends, owing it to being first cousins, having similar professional pursuits and political beliefs. Each served, in succession, as United States Attorney General. Some of his other first cousins include U.S. Senator & Governor of the State of Connecticut, Roger Sherman Baldwin; U.S. Senator (brother of Ebenezer R.) George F. Hoar; and California state senator and founding trustee of the University of California, Sherman Day.

Related Topics:
Massachusetts - Ebenezer R. Hoar - Connecticut - Roger Sherman Baldwin - George F. Hoar - California - University of California

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Son Maxwell Evarts graduated from Yale College in 1884, where he was also a member of Skull and Bones. He served as a New York City District attorney, and then later as General Counsel for E. H. Harriman, which later became the Union Pacific Railroad, president of two (2) Windsor, VT banks, and the chief financial backer of the Gridley Automatic Lathe (manufactured by the Windsor Machine Co.). In politics, Maxwell Evarts served as a representative in the Vermont state legislature and was a Vermont State Fair Commissioner.

Related Topics:
Skull and Bones - E. H. Harriman - Union Pacific Railroad

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Grandson Maxwell E. Perkins was the famed Charles Scribner's Sons editor of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and James Jones.

Related Topics:
F. Scott Fitzgerald - Ernest Hemingway - Thomas Wolfe - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - James Jones

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Grandson Evarts Boutell Greene, the famed American historian appointed Columbia University's first De Witt Clinton Professor of History 1923, Department Chairman, 1926-1939. Chairman of the Columbia Institute of Japanese Studies, 1936?39. He was a noted authority on the American Colonial and Revolutionary War periods.

Related Topics:
Columbia University - De Witt Clinton - Revolutionary War

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Great-grandson Roger Sherman Greene, the son of Daniel Crosby Greene and Mary Jane (Forbes) Greene; was the U.S. Vice Consul in Rio de Janeiro, 1903-04; Nagasaki, 1904-05; Kobe, 1905; U.S. Consul in Vladivostok, 1907; Harbin, 1909-11; U.S. Consul General in Hankow, 1911-14.

Related Topics:
Rio de Janeiro - Nagasaki - Kobe - Vladivostok - Harbin - Hankow

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Great-grandson Jerome Davis Greene (1874-1959): President, Lee, Higginson & Company, 1917-1932; Secretary, Harvard University Corporation, 1905-1910 & 1934-1943; General Manager of the Rockefeller Institute 1910-1012, assistant and secretary to John D. Rockefeller Jr. as Trustee, Rockefeller Institute; Trustee, Rockefeller Foundation; Trustee, Rockefeller General Education Board, 1910-1939. executive secretary, American Section - Allied Maritime Transport Council, 1918 Joint Secretary of the Reparations, Paris Peace Conference, 1919; Chairman, American Council Institute of Pacific Relations, 1929-32; Trustee, Brookings Institution of Washington, 1928-1945; and a founding member, Council on Foreign Relations.

Related Topics:
Harvard University - Rockefeller Institute - John D. Rockefeller Jr. - Rockefeller Foundation - Paris Peace Conference - Brookings Institution - Council on Foreign Relations

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Great-grandson Archibald Cox served as a U.S. Solicitor General and special prosecutor during President Richard Nixon's Watergate Scandal, whereas Evarts defended a president in his impeachment trial. In a sense, they both successfully argued their cases, which represent two of the three U.S. Presidential impeachment efforts. An impeachment trial was never held in Nixon's case, due to the president's resignation.

Related Topics:
Archibald Cox - Richard Nixon - Watergate Scandal

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