John Garibaldi Sargent was an American

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 lawyer and statesman.

Biography

He graduated from Tufts College in 1887, and earned a master's degree

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 from the same institution in 1912. He studied law in the interim and was admitted to the Vermont

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 bar in 1890. Sargent joined the firm of Stickney, Sargent & Skeels, then served as state's attorney in Windsor County, Vermont, until 1900.

He served as secretary for civil and military affairs of Vermont from 1900 to 1902, and as attorney general

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 of Vermont from 1900 to 1902 and again from 1908 to 1912.

President

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 Calvin Coolidge

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 appointed Sargent Attorney General of the United States

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 on March 17, 1925, and he remained in that office until March 5, 1929. Sargent was also chairman of the Vermont Commission on Uniform State Laws, and a trustee of the Black River Academy. He died in 1939 in Ludlow, Vermont

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, aged 78.

He was a Universalist

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.