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Edwards Pierrepont, American lawyer and politician, 34th United States Attorney General (died 1892)

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Edwards Pierrepont

19th-century American politician, lawyer, and US Attorney General

Edwards Pierrepont 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…
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United States Attorney General

Head of the US Department of Justice

The United States attorney general is the head of the United States Department of Justice and serves as the chief law enforcement officer of the federal government. The attorney general acts as the principal legal advisor to the president of the United States on all legal…
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