Attorney General: Henry Stanbery
Henry Stanbery was born in New York City, New York, on February 20, 1803. His family moved to Ohio in 1814. Stanbery graduated from Washington College in Pennsylvania in 1819 and studied law under Ebenezer Granger and Charles B. Goddard. He was admitted to the bar in Ohio in 1824 and to the bar of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1832. Stanbery practiced law privately until 1846 when he was elected the first attorney general of Ohio by the state assembly. In 1850, he served as a delegate to the Ohio Constitutional Convention. From 1853 to 1866, he resumed the private practice of law.
President Andrew Johnson appointed Stanbery as Attorney General of the United States on July 23, 1866. He resigned on March 12, 1868, to defend President Johnson during his impeachment trial before the U.S. Senate. At the conclusion of the trial, Johnson reappointed Stanbery as Attorney General, but the Senate rejected his nomination. Stanbery died in New York City on June 26, 1881.
Jared Bradley Flagg was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1820 and learned to paint in his youth. He was a painter of portraits and religious themes. Flagg studied theology and was ordained in the Episcopal Church in 1855. In the mid-1860s, he resumed his career as a professional painter in New Haven and New York City. His portrait of Attorney General Stanbery was painted in 1869. Flagg died in 1889.