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Joseph Hodges Choate (January 24, 1832 – May 14, 1917) was an American lawyer and diplomat. He was chairman of the American delegation at the Second Hague Conference, and ambassador to the United Kingdom.
11 giu 2018 · Joseph Hodges Choate was a popular lawyer in New York in the late 1800s. Choate distinguished himself by his exceptional career before the bar, his accomplishments as ambassador to the Court of St. James's (an ambassador to England), his dedication to public service, and his sharp wit and clever after-dinner speeches.
He settled the Alaska-Canada dispute and negotiated the Open Door Policy in China. In addition to his service as founder of the American Museum of Natural History, Choate strengthened New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Hospital, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
- Susan Ritchie
JOSEPH HODGES CHOATE: TWENTY-FIRST PRESIDENT OF ASSOCIATION. By William V. Rowe. Member of New York and Massachusetts Bars. MR. CHOATE was the twenty-first president of in the office-routine of the old student-days in the the American Bar Association.
This biography of Mr. Choate is frankly described as ‘gathered chiefly from his letters.’ They are for the most part letters to members of his own family, and reveal in all their implications ...
In 1897, Choate was a candidate for the Republican U.S. senatorial nomination for New York, and in 1894 he was president of the New York state constitutional convention. In 1899 he was appointed to U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom and served until 1905.
The Cyclopædia of American Biography. James E. Homans, editor. Choate, Joseph Hodges. information about this edition. sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons category, Wikidata item. CHOATE, Joseph Hodges, lawyer, b. in Salem, Mass., 24 Jan., 1832; d. in New York City, 14 May, 1917, son of George and Margaret Manning (Hodges) Choate.
