The Political Graveyard: Choate family of Massachusetts

Choate family of Massachusetts

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George Choate — of Ipswich, Essex County, Mass. Married to Susanna Choate; father of George Choate (1796-1880); grandfather of Joseph Hodges Choate. Member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1814-17, 1819. Burial location unknown.
George Choate (1796-1880) — of Salem, Essex County, Mass. Born in Salem, Essex County, Mass., 1796. Son of George Choate (1760?-?); brother of Rufus Choate; father of Joseph Hodges Choate. Physician; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives. Died in 1880. Burial location unknown.
Rufus Choate (1799-1859) — of Salem, Essex County, Mass. Born in Hog Island, Ipswich, Essex County, Mass., October 1, 1799. Brother of George Choate; uncle of Joseph Hodges Choate. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts state legislature; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 2nd District, 1831-35; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, 1841-45; Massachusetts state attorney general, 1853-54; resigned 1854. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1915. Died in Halifax, Nova Scotia, July 13, 1859. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
- See also: congressional biography; Wikipedia article; NNDB dossier.
William Gardner Choate (b. 1830) — of New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in Salem, Essex County, Mass., August 30, 1830. Son of George Choate and Margaret Manning (Hodges) Choate; married, June 29, 1870, to Mary Lyman Atwater; brother of Joseph Hodges Choate. Lawyer; U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York, 1878-81. Burial location unknown.
Joseph Hodges Choate (1832-1917) — of Manhattan, New York County, N.Y. Born in Salem, Essex County, Mass., January 24, 1832. Grandson of George Choate (1760?-?); son of George Choate (1796-1880) and Margaret Manning (Hodges) Choate; nephew of Rufus Choate; brother of William Gardner Choate; married, October 16, 1861, to Caroline Dutcher Sterling. Lawyer; delegate to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1894; U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1899-1905. English ancestry. Member, American Philosophical Society; American Bar Association; Union League. Died, of a heart attack, in Manhattan, New York County, N.Y., May 14, 1917. Interment at Stockbridge Cemetery, Stockbridge, Mass.
- Cross-reference: William Phillips
- See also: Wikipedia article; NNDB dossier.

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