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RARE \"19th Century Attorney General\" Edwards Pierrepont Cut Signature:
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Up for sale a RARE!  "Attorney General" Edwards Pierrepont Cut Signature.

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Edwards

Pierrepont (March 4, 1817 – March 6, 1892) was

an American

attorney, reformer, jurist, traveler, New York U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney

General, U.S. Minister to England, and orator. Having graduated from Yale in 1837, Pierrepont studied law

and was admitted to the bar in 1840. During the American Civil War, Pierrepont was a Democrat,

although he supported President Abraham Lincoln. Pierrepont initially supported

President Andrew Johnson's conservative Reconstruction efforts

having opposed the Radical Republicans.

In both 1868 and 1872, Pierrepont supported Ulysses S.

Grant for President. For his support, President Grant appointed

Pierrepont United States Attorney in 1869. In 1871, Pierrepont gained the

reputation as a solid reformer, having joined New York's Committee of

Seventy that shut down Boss Tweed's corrupt Tammany Hall. In 1872,

Pierrepont modified his views on Reconstruction and stated that African

American freedman's rights needed to be protected. In April 1875,

Pierrepont was appointed U.S. Attorney General by President Grant, who, having

teamed up with Secretary of Treasury Benjamin

Bristow, vigorously prosecuted the notorious Whiskey Ring,

a national tax evasion swindle that involved whiskey distillers, brokers, and

government officials, including President Grant's private secretary, Orville E. Babcock. Upon his appointment,

Pierrepont quickly cleaned up corruption in Southern U.S. districts. Pierrepont

had continued former Attorney General George H. Williams moratorium on

prosecuting the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan had been previously

prosecuted by President Grant's Attorneys General Amos T.

Akerman and Williams from 1871 to 1873, prosecuting civil rights

violations of whites against African Americans. Pierrepont ruled that a

naturalized Prussian immigrant's son born in the U.S. was not obligated to

serve in the Prussian military as an adult. In his ruling of the Chorpenning

Claim, Pierrepont cited the Supreme Court case Gorden v United States,

having agreed that the Postmaster General, as well as the Secretary of War,

served as ministers rather than legally binding arbitrators for a monetary

claim by a private citizen. After serving as Attorney General, Pierrepont was

appointed Minister to Great Britain by President Grant serving from 1876 to

1877. After many visits to France, Pierrepont became an advocate for bimetalism.

Having returned from England, Pierrepont resumed his law practice until his

death in 1892.

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