[Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 by George Hoar]@TWC D-Link bookAutobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 CHAPTER III 7/37
STONE. Mr.Hoar was associated with Mr.Webster in the defence of Judge Prescott when he was impeached before the Senate of Massachusetts.
He encountered Webster, and Choate, and Jeremiah Mason, and John Davis, and the elder Marcus Morton, and other giants of the Bar, in many a hard battle.
Mr.Webster makes affectionate reference to him in a letter to my brother, now in existence.
He was a member of the Harrisburg Convention which nominated General Harrison for the Presidency in 1839. He represented Concord in the Massachusetts Convention to Revise the Constitution, in 1820, in which convention his father, Samuel Hoar, represented Lincoln.
When he first rose to speak in that body, John Adams said, "That young man reminds me of my old friend, Roger Sherman." He was a Federalist, afterward a Whig, and in the last years of his life a Republican. Mr.Hoar succeeded Edward Everett as Representative in Congress from the Middlesex District in 1835.
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