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Joseph Hodges Choate (January 24, 1832 – May 14, 1917) was an American lawyer and diplomat. He was chairman of the American delegation at the Second Hague Conference, and ambassador to the United Kingdom.
11 de jun. de 2018 · Joseph Hodges Choate was a popular lawyer in New York in the late 1800s. Choate distinguished himself by his exceptional career before the bar, his accomplishments as ambassador to the Court of St. James's (an ambassador to England), his dedication to public service, and his sharp wit and clever after-dinner speeches.
He settled the Alaska-Canada dispute and negotiated the Open Door Policy in China. In addition to his service as founder of the American Museum of Natural History, Choate strengthened New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Hospital, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
A highly conservative lawyer and leader of the American bar, Joseph Hodges Choate often appeared before the Supreme Court in defense of property interests and removed from the concerns of a populace he inimitably referred to as the "Great Unwashed."
Joseph Hodges Choate Jr. (February 2, 1876 – January 19, 1968), was an American lawyer who chaired the Voluntary Committee of Lawyers, a group established in 1927 that promoted the repeal of prohibition. Upon repeal in 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt named Choate the first head of the Federal Alcohol Control Administration (FACA).
JOSEPH HODGES CHOATE: TWENTY-FIRST PRESIDENT OF ASSOCIATION. By William V. Rowe. Member of New York and Massachusetts Bars. MR. CHOATE was the twenty-first president of in the office-routine of the old student-days in the the American Bar Association.
CHOATE, Joseph Hodges, lawyer, b. in Salem, Mass., 24 Jan., 1832; d. in New York City, 14 May, 1917, son of George and Margaret Manning (Hodges) Choate. His first paternal American ancestor, John Choate, emigrated from Colchester, England, in 1643, and settled in the town that is now Ipswich, Mass. His son Thomas was the first of the family to ...
