The New Student's Reference Work/Hoar, George Frisbie
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Hoar, George Frisbie, an American lawyer
and statesman, was born at Concord,
GEORGE F. HOAR
Mass., Aug. 29,
1826. He was
educated at Harvard
and admitted to
the bar in 1849.
In 1869 he was
elected a representative
in Congress
from Massachusetts,
and to each
subsequent
Congress until 1877,
when he was elected
to the United
States senate, to
which he was
re-elected in 1883,
1889, 1895 and 1901. He was presiding
officer of the national Republican convention
of 1880. His long career was marked
by broad patriotism and conspicuous ability
in the discussion and solution of important
public question. He died on September
30, 1904.