Continued from December 15, 2021.
Edward Everett was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1794. A precocious youth, he graduated from Harvard at age 17, receiving highest honors in spite of being the youngest member of the class. Three years later, after earning a Masters of Divinity degree, he was invited to be the minister of the Brattle Street Church, then Boston's largest and most fashionable congregation and was installed as its minister before reaching his 20th birthday.
After a year in the pulpit, he decided that he preferred scholarship to the ministry and accepted a faculty appointment in Greek Literature at Harvard. Since he was only 21 and only had a Master's degree, the university sent him to Europe for two years of further study. He completed a Ph.d. in Germany before returning to Harvard in 1819.
Everett was unusual for a 19th century scholar in his having aspirations beyond campus. He left teaching to serve five terms in the U.S. House of Representatives (1825-1835); four (one year) terms as the Massachusetts governor (1836-1839); four years as ambassador to England (1841-1845); Secretary of State under President Millard Fillmore; one term in the U.S. Senate (1854-1860)
In the mid 1840s, he took a break from politics to serve as Harvard's rsident.
A Remarkable Man. Maj. Charles Winchester Would Be So Proud. --Old Secesh
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