Alternate meaning: Pierpont Edwards

Pierpont Edwards

Pierpont Edwards was a delegate to the American Continental Congress, and later a United States federal judge. He has been described as "a brilliant but erratic member of the Connecticut bar, tolerant in religious matters and bitterly hated by stern Calvinists, a man whose personal morality...

Edwards Pierrepont (March 4, 1817 – March 6, 1892) was an American

United States

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 statesman, jurist and lawyer.

Biography

Born in North Haven, Connecticut

North Haven, Connecticut

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, he graduated from Yale University

Yale University

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 and New Haven Law School, was admitted to the bar in 1840 and practiced law in Columbus, Ohio

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, from 1840 to 1845. He moved to New York

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 and served as judge of the New York Supreme Court

New York Supreme Court

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 from 1857 to 1860.

In 1862, during the American Civil War

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 Pierrepont was made a member of the military commission for the cases of state prisoners in the custody of the federal military authorities. In 1867 he conducted the case for the government against John H. Surratt

John Surratt

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, indicted as an accomplice in the murder of Lincoln

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 and in 1867 became a member of the New York constitutional convention. His estate at Garrison, New York

Garrison, New York

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 was designed by noted architect Alexander Jackson Davis

Alexander Jackson Davis

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 in 1867; it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

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 in 1982 as the Hurst-Pierrepont Estate

Hurst-Pierrepont Estate

Hurst-Pierrepont Estate is a historic estate located at Garrison in Putnam County, New York. It was designed by noted architect Alexander Jackson Davis for Edwards Pierrepont and built in 1867. It is a two story brick Gothic villa. It features a four story, flat roofed tower...

.

From 1869 to 1870 he served as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York

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. As U.S. Attorney, he prosecuted Cuban revolutionaries for violation of the Neutrality Act. President

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 Ulysses S. Grant

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 appointed Pierrepont Attorney General of the United States on April 26, 1875. He was an active member of the "Committee of Seventy

Committee of Seventy

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." On May 22, 1876 he became Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Britain, serving until December 1, 1877. Pierrepont died in New York City

New York City

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two days after his 75th birthday on March 6, 1892, where he had lived after his return from England. He is buried at St. Philip's Cemetery, in Garrison, New York.