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Senate Years of Service: 1853-1854 Party: Whig
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EVERETT, Edward, (father of William Everett),
a Representative and a Senator from Massachusetts; born in Dorchester, Mass.,
April 11, 1794; graduated from Harvard University in 1811; tutor in that university 1812-1814;
studied theology and was ordained pastor of the Brattle Street Unitarian Church, Boston, in
1814; professor of Greek literature at Harvard University 1815-1826; overseer of Harvard
University 1827-1847, 1849-1854, and 1862-1865; elected to the Nineteenth and to the four
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1825-March 3, 1835); declined to be a candidate for
renomination in 1834; chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs (Twentieth Congress);
Governor of Massachusetts 1836-1840; appointed United States Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary to Great Britain 1841-1845; declined a diplomatic commission to
China in 1843; president of Harvard University 1846-1849; appointed Secretary of State by
President Millard Fillmore to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Daniel Webster and served
from November 6, 1852, to March 3, 1853; elected as a Whig to the United States Senate and
served from March 4, 1853, until his resignation, effective June 1, 1854; unsuccessful candidate
for vice president of the United States in 1860 on the Constitutional-Union ticket; died in
Boston, Mass., January 15, 1865; interment in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
Bibliography Dictionary of American Biography; Everett, Edward. Edward Everett Papers. Edited by Frederick S.
Allis, Jr. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1972. Microfilm. 54 reels and guide; Reid,
Ronald F. Edward Everett: Unionist Orator. New York: Greenwood Press,
1990.
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