Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1899 — JOSEPH CHOATE NOMINATED. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

JOSEPH CHOATE NOMINATED.

president Names Him as Ambassador to Great Britain. The President oa Wednesday sent to the Senate the rucjiiiation of Joseph H. Choate to be ambsssedor to Great Britain. ■ " ' ‘ “ Joseph H. Choate stands at the head of the legal profession in this country as a practicing attorney. He has no peer as an after-dinner talker. Mr. Choate to a New Englander by birth and by reason of a long line of ancestors. He was born in 1833 and early in life started out to win a name independently of any virtue . or renown which his father, the learned” Dr. Choate, had won. He graduated at

Harvard with high honors and immediately began the practice of law. Senator Evarts heard his first pleading and was so amazed by it that he prevailed upon the young barrister to form a partnership with him. Not many years after this partnership was formed Choate could sign his check for $1,000,1X10 and still leave enough in the bank to make the ordinary lawyer rich the balance of his life. Choate has appeared in many of tbe greatest cases of the past twenty years. He was instrumental in breaking up the Tweed ring, nude the argument for FitzJohn Porter, defended Gen. Ccsnola in the famous criminal libel suit brought by Gaston Feuerdent, argued the Stokes will case, was a leading spirit in the Tilden will case, awd his opinion was sought in the Behring seg controversy.

JOSEPH H. CHOATE.