Attorney General: William H. Moody
William Henry Moody was born on December 23, 1853, in Newbury, Massachusetts. In 1872, he graduated from Philips Academy and, in 1876, from Harvard before studying law in the office of Richard Henry Dana, Jr. He was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1878, and from 1890 to 1895 served as U.S. Attorney for the state’s Eastern District. Moody was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in November 1895 and was appointed Secretary of the Navy in May 1902.
Moody served in that position until President Theodore Roosevelt appointed him as Attorney General of the United States in July 1904. Moody left the office in December 1906 to become Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Persistent ill health obliged him to resign from the Court in 1910. William Moody died in Haverhill, Massachusetts, on July 2, 1917.
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1863, Albert Rosenthal studied art under his father at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. His early work was in lithography, reproducing etchings of American historical figures. After studying painting in Paris from 1889 to 1892, he opened a studio in Philadelphia. Rosenthal painted Attorney General Moody's portrait in 1907. He died in 1939.