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VERY RARE! "American Bar Assoc" Founder Edward John Phelps Hand Written 2 Page Letter Dated 1892. This item iscertified authentic by Todd Mueller and comes with their Certificate ofAuthenticity and hologram affixed.
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Edward John Phelps (July 11, 1822 – March 9, 1900) was a lawyerand diplomatfrom Vermont.He is notable for his service as Envoy to Court of St. James's from 1885 to 1889. Inaddition, Phelps was a founder of the American Bar Association, and served asits president from 1880 to 1881. A prominent Democrat even as Vermont wastrending towards the Republicans, Phelps wasthe son of Senator Samuel S. Phelps and his first wife, Frances(Shurtleff) Phelps. Edward Phelps graduated from Middlebury College in 1840, taught school in Virginia,and studied for a career as an attorney, first at Yale LawSchool, and then in the office of Middlebury attorney Horatio Seymour. He practiced in Burlington, and served as Second Comptroller of the Treasury from 1851 to1853. He supported the Union, but as a critic of what he regardedas the excesses of the Abraham Lincoln administration. He served as adelegate to the Vermont constitutional convention of 1870, and was one of thefounders of the American Bar Association. Phelps served asABA president from 1880 to 1881. In 1880, he was the unsuccessful Democraticnominee for Governor of Vermont. Phelps was Envoy to Court of St. James's in Britain from 1885to 1889. He later taught law at Yale LawSchool, the University of Vermont, and BostonUniversity. He supported Republicans after 1896, in response to hisdisagreement with the Democratic Party's turn towards the Free Silvermovement. He died in New Haven, Connecticut, and was buried atGreenmount Cemetery in Burlington.