Henry Stanbery

Henry Stanbery

Henry Stanbery (Stanberry) (born February 20, 1803 in New York City , † June 26, 1881 ibid) was an American lawyer , politician and Attorney General .

Studies and professional career

At the age of eleven, he and his parents moved to Ohio . After a general education at Washington College near Pittsburgh , which the son of a doctor graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) at the age of 16 in 1819 , he studied law . Upon reaching the age limit, he was admitted to the bar in Ohio in 1824 and in 1832 at the United States Supreme Court .

As a lawyer he joined the office of the later Finance and Interior Minister Thomas Ewing in Lancaster for more than 20 years . In 1853 he established himself as a lawyer in Cincinnati .

Attorney General under President Johnson

In 1846 the General Assembly of Ohio chose him for the first Attorney General of the State . He held this office until 1851. He was then a member of the Ohio Constituent Assembly for two years.

President Andrew Johnson's attempt to appoint him Chief Justice of the United States failed because of opposition from the US Senate because of his lenient stance on the reorganization of the United States after the Civil War , the so-called Reconstruction .

On July 23, 1866, President Johnson appointed him instead as Attorney General ( Attorney General ) in his cabinet . He put this office on March 12, temporarily down to the president in the proceedings initiated against him impeachment proceedings ( impeachment defense). At the end of the process, President Johnson reappointed him as Attorney General. However, Stanbery's appointment as judge at the United States Supreme Court , which was intended at the same time, failed due to the reduction in seats by the Senate.

As Minister of Justice, he was instrumental in the Civil Rights Act of 1866 . On July 16, 1868, he was replaced as Minister of Justice by William M. Evarts , after the Senate had previously rejected his official resumption of office due to his resignation on March 12.

literature

• Stanbery, Henry . In: James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (Eds.): Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography . tape 5 : Pickering - Sumter . D. Appleton and Company, New York 1888, p. 643 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).

Web links

• Henry Stanbery in the Miller Center of Public Affairs of the University of Virginia (English)
• Biography on the homepage of the Ministry of Justice
• Biography in the US legal dictionary