Attorney General: Ebenezer R. Hoar
Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar was born in Concord, Massachusetts, on February 21, 1816. He graduated from Harvard in 1835, studied law, and received his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1839. He was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1840 and practiced law in Concord and Boston. In 1846, Hoar served in the Massachusetts State Senate. He was judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Boston from 1849 to 1855, and associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court from 1859 to 1869.
President Ulysses S. Grant appointed Hoar as Attorney General of the United States on March 5, 1869. He held that office until 1870. Hoar served on the Joint High Commission that negotiated the 1871 Treaty of Washington with Great Britain. From 1873 to 1875, Hoar was a Representative in the U.S. Congress. Ebenezer Hoar died on January 31, 1895, in Concord, Massachusetts.
William Morris Hunt was born in Brattleboro, Vermont, in 1824. He attended Harvard but left before graduating. He studied art at Dusseldorf in Germany and with Thomas Couture in Paris. Hunt returned to the United States and settled permanently in Boston. He was known for his landscapes, portraits, and cameos, and is remembered for his murals in the state capitol in Albany, New York. Hunt's portrait of Attorney General Hoar was painted in 1870. He died in 1879.