Rufus Choate
Rufus Choate was an American lawyer, orator, and senator who represented Massachusetts as a member of the Whig Party. He is regarded as one of the greatest American lawyers of the 19th century, arguing over a thousand cases in a lifetime practice extending to virtually every branch of the law then recognized. Notably, he was one of the pioneers of the legal technique of arousing jury sympathy in tort cases.
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Background
- Born in
- Ipswich
- Educated at
- Dartmouth CollegeHarvard Law School
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading."
"There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by equal laws which it had framed."
"All that happens in the world of Nature or Man, — every war; every peace; every hour of prosperity; every hour of adversity; every election; every death ; every life; every success and every failure, …"
"The Works of Rufus Choate: With a Memoir of His Life, by Samuel Gilman Brown"
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Timeline
1799
Born
Birth1859
Died
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